I am only posting this for the benefit of any non technical users here.
I know the stalwarts would not be taken in by this. In all honesty the person who sent me the mail, should have known better. :( However it has cost the bank some money.
This is an email I received from a friend last night.
I've spent the afternoon purporting to come from Microsoft stating that they had become ware that my computer ewas being hacked considerably and they needed to caych the hackers.
They showed me a screen which is accessed byclicking on the microsoft and r together. I can't remember he asked me to enter my microsoft identity for my computer(he told me what it was). I did so and selectrd evenviewer which showed I had been attacked 313 times which sounds a lot but when I checked the date they were all for 04/08/15 which made me a little suspicoius.
Wes talkedd for a while and he could upgrade my windows 7 pc and the XP to windows 10 which I doubted. It got worse. He asked me to fill in a series of forms which I did He was going to give a lifetime support for £20.00 initially £250.00 but you get it cheaper as a pensioner, Anyway to cut a long story short he asked me to to put a transer of £20.00 as payment which apparantly blocked. He told me to aask the bank why it was blocked. I called the bank and it wsan't blocked.
He gave me a number for barclays fraud department which I have been unable to verify. By that time I was extremely suspecious so I wrang up the bank up immediately only yo discover that the card had now been blocked, a new card issued and a payment transfered through Western Union Money Transfer Service for £340.00. I said it was fraudulent and the transfer will not be made.
I know you would have smelled a rat a long time before meHe had contacted me by teamviewer and was communicating via notepad. He said the plan was number 340 and the money was £200. He says he'll call me back tomorrow. He's iether stupid, inocent, or extremely confident of his ability to con people.
I know the stalwarts would not be taken in by this. In all honesty the person who sent me the mail, should have known better. :( However it has cost the bank some money.
This is an email I received from a friend last night.
I've spent the afternoon purporting to come from Microsoft stating that they had become ware that my computer ewas being hacked considerably and they needed to caych the hackers.
They showed me a screen which is accessed byclicking on the microsoft and r together. I can't remember he asked me to enter my microsoft identity for my computer(he told me what it was). I did so and selectrd evenviewer which showed I had been attacked 313 times which sounds a lot but when I checked the date they were all for 04/08/15 which made me a little suspicoius.
Wes talkedd for a while and he could upgrade my windows 7 pc and the XP to windows 10 which I doubted. It got worse. He asked me to fill in a series of forms which I did He was going to give a lifetime support for £20.00 initially £250.00 but you get it cheaper as a pensioner, Anyway to cut a long story short he asked me to to put a transer of £20.00 as payment which apparantly blocked. He told me to aask the bank why it was blocked. I called the bank and it wsan't blocked.
He gave me a number for barclays fraud department which I have been unable to verify. By that time I was extremely suspecious so I wrang up the bank up immediately only yo discover that the card had now been blocked, a new card issued and a payment transfered through Western Union Money Transfer Service for £340.00. I said it was fraudulent and the transfer will not be made.
I know you would have smelled a rat a long time before meHe had contacted me by teamviewer and was communicating via notepad. He said the plan was number 340 and the money was £200. He says he'll call me back tomorrow. He's iether stupid, inocent, or extremely confident of his ability to con people.
Scammers can still catch you out!
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