Thanks for the post. It is to the letter of what happened to my elderly parents. They gave no credit card or banking info but completely lost everything on their computer, drivers and all. It was taken over by remote desktop and they lost everything. I live out of town and told them to immediately go to my sister's house next door and log in to all their accounts and change their passwords. They called their bank to place an alert as well as ebay and paypal. Just hope they acted soon enough. Scary!
I have been getting this "OVERSEAS" thing for several years now, no one talks just silence then cut off. I get it several times a month. So what I have done is put a fax machine on the line and when caller id comes up with "Overseas" we do not answer. Just let the fax take it. Seems to slow them down for a while but eventually happens again. I must say that I up to now never thought to type the phone number into the net and I must admit how wide spread these people are doing this and how many people are affected by it.
got a call from this number at 3.30am... by the time I got to the phone my answering machine picked up - no message left... Isn't there anything that can be done about these calls?? This is not the first call have received. - surely the name paying the phone bill can be identified!!!.....
I have been getting a few of these calls. It seems to go in cycles almost daily to almost monthly. I've played various games with them. Not once allowing them any where near my computer systems. My favourite trick is to get a police whistle, you know the type high frequency.. Then a short sharp loud blast down the phone.
Now all I need to do is train my mum just to hang up on them