[Hidden-tech] iComputerCare: dangerous or the real deal?

[Jeff Brand]

Scam, scam, giant scam.

This should seem very familiar:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech-support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/

I know of 2 people who had been taken in by this. It was a nightmare.


On 10/28/2014 5:03 PM, Ed Bride wrote:
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> HTers,
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> Has anybody received a cold-call from a company called 
> iComputerCare.com? They present themselves as calling from “the 
> maintenance department of Windows,” saying they are connected to all 
> Windows computers. And my computer is sending error messages with 
> indications that dangerous software is being downloaded, etc., etc.  
> When I asked what IP address was sending them these messages, they 
> gave me 172.116.10.177, which I checked with WHOIS, to no avail.
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> I talked with them for a while, but when they asked me to sit in front 
> of my computer (where do they think I was already sitting?) and start 
> looking things up, I decided to ask if the call was being recorded. 
> They said yes, and I reminded them that they had broken the law by not 
> telling me up-front; when I said, “I’d like to record this as well. 
> Would you please start this conversation over, so I can get it from 
> the beginning,” they muttered something in a foreign language, and 
> hung up.
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> OK...a huge waste of time. I suppose the question is: is this a new 
> scam, an old scam, or not a scam?
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> Ed
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