No Internet ....Scam ! or what

hostahousey
hostahousey Forum Participant Posts: 7,240 ✭✭✭
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edited November 2016 in General Chat #1

Over the last couple of days we have had phone calls from  someone  stating this is BT, and he was informing us that our internet was to be switched Off. Would we start up our computer as there was evidence that someone was trying to Hack in to it ,and he would tell us what to do. My wife's reply was how do I know you are BT , this could be a Scam, he then disconnected .

The next day someone rang who stated she was from TalkTalk, and they needed to shut our computer down. My wife said but we are not with TalkTalk, and the call was disconnected.

I wondered if anyone else had received this type of call. Which is obviously a  Scam ! 

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  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,302 ✭✭✭
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    edited November 2016 #2

    Not for a while and then it was someone from Microsoft, supposedly, about an issue with our operating system. As with you wanting access to our computer. Clearly a scam. Now we just don't answer the phone to anything that does not come up with a name In
    the phones memory. If it is important enough there is always the answer phone, which cuts in after 20 seconds or so. In general they ring off well before.

  • huskydog
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    edited November 2016 #3

    I work on the rule ,that if someone phones me offering something that I haven't asked for then it's a scam ......

  • KjellNN
    KjellNN Club Member Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭
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    edited November 2016 #4

    Yes, a scam of course.  I have recently had several calls from "BT", "Mircosoft" and others.  Strangely they all seem to be calling from India,  yet are called Steve or Amanda.

  • Justus2
    Justus2 Forum Participant Posts: 897
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    edited November 2016 #5

    The last time we had one of these calls, the wife said, really ? We dont have a computer !

  • redface
    redface Forum Participant Posts: 1,701
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    edited November 2016 #6

    "Its about your windows sir"

    Oh, I say, they are all double glazed thank you. Don't need any more.

     

  • KASTARIS
    KASTARIS Forum Participant Posts: 410
    edited November 2016 #7

    I just say there's no one home i'm just the burglar robbing the joint !!!!!!!!!Wink that normally gets rid of them
    Smile

  • papgeno
    papgeno Forum Participant Posts: 2,158
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    edited November 2016 #8

    We've given up answering the landline altogether. I'll play the first few seconds of the answer phone message and decide if I want to listen to any more. 90% of the calls are still about PPI or similar

  • paul56
    paul56 Forum Participant Posts: 937
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    edited November 2016 #9

    Our phone calls are usually from Kevin who works for Microsoft....

    Best one, my son in law works behind the scenes for Lloyds Bank and he got one at work on his mobile a couple of weeks ago informing him that the computer he was working at had a virus and that he could help remove it.... Toby started telling him the strength
    of the firewall and other protection systems at Lloyds before the phone went dead...

  • RedMick
    RedMick Forum Participant Posts: 173
    edited November 2016 #10

    I got one at 7.30 a.m. yesterday from 'TalkTalk'

      I said 'for security reasons, can you confirm my address?' Well, that's what they ask me, she hung up.

  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,144 ✭✭✭
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    edited November 2016 #11

    I had 3 calls from 'Microsoft' but of course we all know that your ISP will never phone you.  

  • Pippah45
    Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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    edited November 2016 #12

    I had a call yesterday asking to speak to Mr or Mrs H - So I read him the total riot act for assuming there was a Mr in the house!  One of my bugbears - think of all the bereaved ladies you idiot!  So he said he thought he better leave me alone - no says
    I you better tell me why you are calling - surprise surprise he was trying to sell me something but I do hope he won't ASSume there is a couple in the house.  He knew enough to have a name - so presumably someone had sold my details but they certainly hadn't
    sold Mr and Mrs H - the OH has a military rank and never lived here! 

    I almost fell for the Microsoft on as I had contacted Curry's who had just sold me the laptop - and I was having a problem with it - but I stopped him dead when he asked to access the computer. 

  • malc1945
    malc1945 Forum Participant Posts: 74
    edited November 2016 #13

    we had a call from " microsoft" to say that our laptop had a problem when i asked them which one and model they said the one you are using now sorry there is not one switch on  click and they were gone.  malc

  • Oneputt
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    edited November 2016 #14

    While having my computer looked at on Monday another customer said she had lost all the icons off her home page.  She was a BT customer and apparently there is a scam running where a third party gets control of your computer and then demands money to fix
    it.  Don't understand exactly how it works.  Apparently it happens with other ISP's

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