Got a call recently from this number 214-236-5985. CID came up as "Hamilton Gus II". Quikness, thanks for your detailed description and "figuratively" poking whoever this really is in the eye with a sharp stick. All of these scams have gotten totally out of control and the DNC list is little more than a sad joke. Too bad our own GOV appears so utterly disinterested in doing a darn thing about it. Too busy I'd guess collecting legalized bribes (since they all write the laws exempting themselves from their own laws, for a price of course) from lobbyists so they ALL can get Rich while getting reelected. NOT expecting anything to change with the King Of All Scams winning the last election. Hey, for anything with a profit motive I'd be shocked why America isn't the best in the world at this kind of thing too. Oh that's right, we've probably outsourced that too to some lawless third world country where it's more cost effective to do it from sweat shops. Going to hell in a hand basket in one big hurry to get there with all the "fearless leaders" (Rocky and Bullwinkle Show quote) we've had since I was old enough to vote and Nixon won that one. Reminds me of what Revelations speaks of, "where are all our leaders?" During The End Times. Where the Truth becomes a lie and the Lies become the truth. 2016 sure proved that. May God Almighty Save US From Ourselves!
I received a call from an unknown number with an automated voice saying it was Microsoft and to press 1 to speak to a representative. When I pressed 1, a man with a THICK accent told me he was from Microsoft and would help me fix my computer. He started with some instruction and the call dropped. A few seconds later, he called back but didn't block his number. So, I traced the number and found it was a cellphone from Texas. It could be a "dummy" number he used to return the call or an actual cellphone. I don't know at this point but I DO know this is a scam!
I Googled "Windows Key + R Scam" and found this on Microsoft's website.
"Please read. This is going nuts. I receive at least two a week. So many people fall for this. Usually costs $500 to have them "release" your computer plus they leave the malbot on your pc and call every few months demanding more money. They bury the malbot where it cannot be removed. Most people scammed end up tossing their old computer and buying a new one. The WORST version of the scam is one put on your computer buried it in the registry of your e-mail file and documents. NOT easy to do - thank heavens!
So you move those "MUST HAVE" files to your new pc but the da ---- criminals STILL have you forever. Until you abandon your email and all documents. Bummer! This scam has been narrowed down to one city in "tech city" part of a city in east India. This is serious enough Microsoft and others has gone to the Indian government demanding they shut down the dozens of companies doing this. THOUSANDS OF PEOPE ARE DOING IT!
As an aside = WHY CALL CENTERS DON'T USE SOUND DEADENING MICROPHONES?? I CAN always HEAR DOZENS OF BAD PEOPLE SCAMMING OTHERS IN THE BACKGROUND.
This is the first time I have EVER seen Microsoft put out such a warning! This is major serious. Please pass to friends. They just call random numbers assuming people have a computer! As a group I heard they bought a copy of AARP's member list. So many people are complaining to AARP they may be forced to stop selling their member list. They sell it for a million dollars to like life insurance companies and hearing aid companies. You can buy age specific cheaper. Like only older women over age 75. List is like gold. I heard that list costs $250,000 Only two million women on it but think how vulnerable they are to so many types on cons and scams!
On the entire AARP list you have 30(?) million people all with wired telephones and mostly not computer saavy- being older. Many just have a pc to see their grandkids on Skype and do a few emails with friends. So they are prime targets. Since I am a retired senior level computer engineer (I have patents, still do a lot of consulting, etc.) if I have time I play with them with some of my hacking software (I NEVER EVER hack for bad reasons- only to mess up hackers themselves -- I back trace them and do things like add a porno redirect to their pc. I even have software I wrote that destroys their pc if I want to. But I have NEVER destroyed a computer. NEVER been that mad!
Most of these scammers have NO computer protection. Zero. Takes me just seconds to take over not just one PC but an entire call center!
Guess they figure not many AARP people have techie smarts plus hacking software. I do! I heard my phone number is on a SHORT "NEVER EVER CALL THESE NUMBERS = NEVER!" list. But the list is usually ignored I guess. I had four call last week. So many people are dropping wired phones and just doing cell "targets" fall in number every day. I'd drop it if my wife allowed it. Says "we're not real people unless we're in the phone book".
One guy I convinced I had his house surrounded by the police! I told him "if you show up at your house within an hour in your underwear that is the police secret code that you are OK and they will not arrest you! The guy sent me a message the next day mad as Hell.
Oh, I also wrote "you MUST yell all the way home "I am out here in my underwear for punishment for being a bad immoral con man!". I wrote the police have one detective already watching him. I wrote he had to then climb on his roof and keep yelling for 0 minutes.
He wrote me "my neighbors laughed, took pictures etc". Could have been worse. I could have made him go home naked but I figured he might not do it.
His wife was NOT happy. Called him a FOOL for falling for the prank. I would have loved to have had someone video it but no way to know in advance who would be the fall guy. NO ONE now falls for the "underwear prank" as it is now known.
His message said "we are moving - all because of you - you are a very bad people man! Americans are not supposed to be bad people! You are a bad American people!". I locked him out so he could not trace me or get my IP address. He could send me a message but that was it. I
I'm sure his "call center" people laughed as he walked home in his underwear. I suspect he is now driving one of those Indian pedacabs!
Gosh! "Gee wilikers Wally and Beaver! You have fun in life where you find it" is my philosophy! Moral: do not get one Gary Yantis upset! I am RARELY upset BTW.
No matter what they do their pc goes to porn sites. But not forever. I'm NOT cruel. I turn the pc loose after a week with a closing message of "see what it feels like to scam people! Go find another occupation or do GOOD stuff with your computer skills". I then list a dozen companies in India who hire locals to do needed things. Like Odesk. There are many more GOOD Indian computer companies! India is becoming a HUGE techie country. 99% are all in one area of the Indian east coast.
CU,
Gary *** Email address is removed for privacy *** all of India is now locked out of my computer for tracing so having my email will do them no good! I read a rumor some government types get BIG bribes for allowing this. Guys like me cost crooks money!"
Got a call recently from this number 214-236-5985. CID came up as "Hamilton Gus II". Quikness, thanks for your detailed description and "figuratively" poking whoever this really is in the eye with a sharp stick. All of these scams have gotten totally out of control and the DNC list is little more than a sad joke. Too bad our own GOV appears so utterly disinterested in doing a darn thing about it. Too busy I'd guess collecting legalized bribes (since they all write the laws exempting themselves from their own laws, for a price of course) from lobbyists so they ALL can get Rich while getting reelected. NOT expecting anything to change with the King Of All Scams winning the last election. Hey, for anything with a profit motive I'd be shocked why America isn't the best in the world at this kind of thing too. Oh that's right, we've probably outsourced that too to some lawless third world country where it's more cost effective to do it from sweat shops. Going to hell in a hand basket in one big hurry to get there with all the "fearless leaders" (Rocky and Bullwinkle Show quote) we've had since I was old enough to vote and Nixon won that one. Reminds me of what Revelations speaks of, "where are all our leaders?" During The End Times. Where the Truth becomes a lie and the Lies become the truth. 2016 sure proved that. May God Almighty Save US From Ourselves!
I received a call from an unknown number with an automated voice saying it was Microsoft and to press 1 to speak to a representative. When I pressed 1, a man with a THICK accent told me he was from Microsoft and would help me fix my computer. He started with some instruction and the call dropped. A few seconds later, he called back but didn't block his number. So, I traced the number and found it was a cellphone from Texas. It could be a "dummy" number he used to return the call or an actual cellphone. I don't know at this point but I DO know this is a scam!
I Googled "Windows Key + R Scam" and found this on Microsoft's website.
"Please read. This is going nuts. I receive at least two a week. So many people fall for this. Usually costs $500 to have them "release" your computer plus they leave the malbot on your pc and call every few months demanding more money. They bury the malbot where it cannot be removed. Most people scammed end up tossing their old computer and buying a new one. The WORST version of the scam is one put on your computer buried it in the registry of your e-mail file and documents. NOT easy to do - thank heavens!
So you move those "MUST HAVE" files to your new pc but the da ---- criminals STILL have you forever. Until you abandon your email and all documents. Bummer! This scam has been narrowed down to one city in "tech city" part of a city in east India. This is serious enough Microsoft and others has gone to the Indian government demanding they shut down the dozens of companies doing this. THOUSANDS OF PEOPE ARE DOING IT!
As an aside = WHY CALL CENTERS DON'T USE SOUND DEADENING MICROPHONES?? I CAN always HEAR DOZENS OF BAD PEOPLE SCAMMING OTHERS IN THE BACKGROUND.
This is the first time I have EVER seen Microsoft put out such a warning! This is major serious. Please pass to friends. They just call random numbers assuming people have a computer! As a group I heard they bought a copy of AARP's member list. So many people are complaining to AARP they may be forced to stop selling their member list. They sell it for a million dollars to like life insurance companies and hearing aid companies. You can buy age specific cheaper. Like only older women over age 75. List is like gold. I heard that list costs $250,000 Only two million women on it but think how vulnerable they are to so many types on cons and scams!
On the entire AARP list you have 30(?) million people all with wired telephones and mostly not computer saavy- being older. Many just have a pc to see their grandkids on Skype and do a few emails with friends. So they are prime targets. Since I am a retired senior level computer engineer (I have patents, still do a lot of consulting, etc.) if I have time I play with them with some of my hacking software (I NEVER EVER hack for bad reasons- only to mess up hackers themselves -- I back trace them and do things like add a porno redirect to their pc. I even have software I wrote that destroys their pc if I want to. But I have NEVER destroyed a computer. NEVER been that mad!
Most of these scammers have NO computer protection. Zero. Takes me just seconds to take over not just one PC but an entire call center!
Guess they figure not many AARP people have techie smarts plus hacking software. I do! I heard my phone number is on a SHORT "NEVER EVER CALL THESE NUMBERS = NEVER!" list. But the list is usually ignored I guess. I had four call last week. So many people are dropping wired phones and just doing cell "targets" fall in number every day. I'd drop it if my wife allowed it. Says "we're not real people unless we're in the phone book".
One guy I convinced I had his house surrounded by the police! I told him "if you show up at your house within an hour in your underwear that is the police secret code that you are OK and they will not arrest you! The guy sent me a message the next day mad as Hell.
Oh, I also wrote "you MUST yell all the way home "I am out here in my underwear for punishment for being a bad immoral con man!". I wrote the police have one detective already watching him. I wrote he had to then climb on his roof and keep yelling for 0 minutes.
He wrote me "my neighbors laughed, took pictures etc". Could have been worse. I could have made him go home naked but I figured he might not do it.
His wife was NOT happy. Called him a FOOL for falling for the prank. I would have loved to have had someone video it but no way to know in advance who would be the fall guy. NO ONE now falls for the "underwear prank" as it is now known.
His message said "we are moving - all because of you - you are a very bad people man! Americans are not supposed to be bad people! You are a bad American people!". I locked him out so he could not trace me or get my IP address. He could send me a message but that was it. I
I'm sure his "call center" people laughed as he walked home in his underwear. I suspect he is now driving one of those Indian pedacabs!
Gosh! "Gee wilikers Wally and Beaver! You have fun in life where you find it" is my philosophy! Moral: do not get one Gary Yantis upset! I am RARELY upset BTW.
No matter what they do their pc goes to porn sites. But not forever. I'm NOT cruel. I turn the pc loose after a week with a closing message of "see what it feels like to scam people! Go find another occupation or do GOOD stuff with your computer skills". I then list a dozen companies in India who hire locals to do needed things. Like Odesk. There are many more GOOD Indian computer companies! India is becoming a HUGE techie country. 99% are all in one area of the Indian east coast.
CU,
Gary *** Email address is removed for privacy *** all of India is now locked out of my computer for tracing so having my email will do them no good! I read a rumor some government types get BIG bribes for allowing this. Guys like me cost crooks money!"
Got a call recently from this number 214-236-5985. CID came up as "Hamilton Gus II". Quikness, thanks for your detailed description and "figuratively" poking whoever this really is in the eye with a sharp stick. All of these scams have gotten totally out of control and the DNC list is little more than a sad joke. Too bad our own GOV appears so utterly disinterested in doing a darn thing about it. Too busy I'd guess collecting legalized bribes (since they all write the laws exempting themselves from their own laws, for a price of course) from lobbyists so they ALL can get Rich while getting reelected. NOT expecting anything to change with the King Of All Scams winning the last election. Hey, for anything with a profit motive I'd be shocked why America isn't the best in the world at this kind of thing too. Oh that's right, we've probably outsourced that too to some lawless third world country where it's more cost effective to do it from sweat shops. Going to hell in a hand basket in one big hurry to get there with all the "fearless leaders" (Rocky and Bullwinkle Show quote) we've had since I was old enough to vote and Nixon won that one. Reminds me of what Revelations speaks of, "where are all our leaders?" During The End Times. Where the Truth becomes a lie and the Lies become the truth. 2016 sure proved that. May God Almighty Save US From Ourselves!