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

[Tim Boudreau]

It is a scam.  An elderly relative of mine with some cognitive
issues actually gave $900 (!), and it was a lot of work to undo it - that
was over a year ago, so they've been at this a while.

Yeah, I played along with them when they called me, down to the sitting at
the computer part.  When I told them I didn't have whatever they asked me
to look for because I was running Linux, they hung up.

Thank you for wasting some of their time. :-)

-Tim

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Ed Bride <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote:

> 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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>
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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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