On 03/03/2021 13:05, Paul wrote:
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to
her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...

This is the "8000 errors scam". AKA "Tech Support scam".

Â*Â* "To access Event Viewer select the keyboard shortcut
Â*Â*Â* Win+R, type eventvwr.msc and press the ENTER key."

The idea is, the victim sees the ton of error messages
and other useless tripe in the Event Viewer (which is
harmless stuff) and then the caller "asks for £200 to fix it".

Then they remote in and mess around.

All they want, is your £200. There never seems to be
any attempt to do more than that. You give them your
credit card number, and some tech support firm appears
on your next credit card billing statement, with a charge
for £200.

One of the larger scam outfits, got raided by the police
and shut down. But there is always another punter to start
a new one.

And don't taunt them. You might think it's clever to
swear at them or be rude, but you'll be sorry if you do.
They won't leave you alone if you do that. They can be
quite vile on the phone.

sound like fun....

If they did get into the computer, then you should
clean C: (restore from a backup). Now, for £200 , I
can remote in and do that for you. I'm at 1-800-Ruin4PC.

Â*Â* Paul
oh well even the wife would not have been stupid enough to pay them .....