I've just received a phone call alleging to be from Amazon Card Services. It said they were about to deduct £79 fom my account for services and if I wished to cancel this to press button 1 now. I hung up I dont have an Amazom Card so reckoned this was the opening gambit of a scam
You reckon? Absolute cert.
I press button 1 just to waste their time.
Tim
It's an intro to a standard refund scam...
In order to "cancel" you will need to give them remote access to your computer, log into online banking, and "fill out a refund form".
In filling out the form you will "make a mistake" (because they type some extra 0s on the refund amount for you!), claiming a refund of (say) £7900. By the power of editing the HTML on your bank web page while your screen is blanked, they will be able to show you that this inflated amount has indeed been credited to your account.
(in reality they have moved some of your own money from your savings account to your current account)
Now the sob storey about how you are going to cost him/her their job and you must give it back. However just making a bank transfer won't do it, they will want the money in (nice untraceable) gift cards...
This shows you how it plays out:
Not with me, it doesn't. On the phone, I am just the doddery old fool that they want to scam. So, off I go to my PC, and they have to remind me how to switch it on, etc.
Then I have an *awful* lot of with typing stuff in. Eventually, they get me to press the windows key and R at the same time. Then, Teamviewer.com becomes Teamviewerdotcom, and I find it really hard to understand the difference.
At that stage, if they are still on the line, I give them a little sermon about how bad karma it is to scam people, and how much better it would be for them to get a proper job.
I'm retired, and my time is my own.
I had the devil's own job finding the Windows key on my Macintosh keyboard. Or the Start menu.
BTDTGTTS :-)
Yup sometimes if it is a quiet day, I will toy with them for a bit and see how much of a PITA I can be. (I just need to channel some of the most difficult encounters I have had with clients)
I had one lot were asking what kind of computer I had when I was having enormous difficulty running Anydesk. I was getting a bit fed up with them, so I asked "Have you got a pineapple?" (to which I was planning to suggest they inserted it sideways somewhere the sun don't shine), but that sparked a gold mine of further discussion as they tried to work out what a pineapple computer was! Is it an apple? No, it says pineapple on the front. Does it run windows? No PineOS :-)
I went through three different levels of "specialist" as they tried to work out how to remote control that.
Good man -- thank you.
Keep 'em off someone who will fall for it.
Thomas Prufer
I had a very convincing looking email on a similar line
Same on Linux....
Standard call - I get loads of them.
e-bay scam tale.
Apparently willing purchaser claims DPD will not only collect items being sold but will also settle payment. Of course setting this up requires going to a convincing web page and providing account/card details!
Ive had a couple of spams from Lithuania advising me (by an email address that is never used for amazon) that I need to log in to prevent me from losing money
I get lots of calls from my "card company" telling me about the huge purchases I have just made. I went along with one this morning. They wanted me to download anydesk. Maybe I should set up a VM some time with a suitable anonymous ip address. Maybe one in India to confuse them. I also get a lot of calls to my mobile which ring for only a few seconds from 0843 numbers. I assume they want me to call them back. John
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