Posted on September 21, 2020 Caller type: Scam call Location: Australia
Caller: Scammer saying someone had hacked my NBN Caller: Yet another Telstra Scam call. Kept them on for 25mins.
Call from an Indian in Telstra Technical Department about errors in my internet connection. They stated that my NBN would be disconnected for the next 30 days as someone from overseas had hacked my internet connection and stolen my details.
I try to keep scammers like this on the phone as long as possible. It annoys them and prevents them scamming someone else while they are trying to scam me.
They try to identify your computer OS by finding out the key next to the left ctrl key. This way they can use their Windows or Mac “script” to customise the remote hack for your computer.
I try to really confuse them. I told them there was a large Red and white ball next to the ctrl key. They asked if it was Windows or Mac. Told them it was an Amiga X1000 from Amigaone computer running AmigaOS 4.1 (aka as Workbench). Of course this also means their pre-prepared Mac/Windows speech is now worthless.
If they want to know about the Amiga OS refer them to to www.a-eon.com. If they ask where you get software from say www.amient.net and www.amiga.org, Sometimes they ask for the name of your internet browser. If they do say that you use a variation of Firefox as your internet browser.
I was tranfered to another person who claimed that he was the first person and that the reason his voice was different was that he had removed his mask and that his voice was no longer muffled. Even though I could hear the first person talking clearly in the background. He tried to get me to divulge my IP address but I made out I could not find it.
Eventually he just hung up.
Normally they then try to get me to download some remote access software (from www.anydesk.com or www.teamviewer.com) to help them do the remote hack my system. When they do this I tell them that there were no versions of these software programs that would run on my Amiga. This really pisses them off as they think they have a sucker on the line but cannot do anything about it.
Keep them on as long as possible. It annoys them and stops them scamming others.
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Thermite
Posted on September 21, 2020Caller type: Scam call
Location: Australia
Caller: Yet another Telstra Scam call. Kept them on for 25mins.
Call from an Indian in Telstra Technical Department about errors in my internet connection.
They stated that my NBN would be disconnected for the next 30 days as someone from overseas had hacked my internet connection and stolen my details.
I try to keep scammers like this on the phone as long as possible.
It annoys them and prevents them scamming someone else while they are trying to scam me.
They try to identify your computer OS by finding out the key next to the left ctrl key.
This way they can use their Windows or Mac “script” to customise the remote hack for your computer.
I try to really confuse them.
I told them there was a large Red and white ball next to the ctrl key.
They asked if it was Windows or Mac.
Told them it was an Amiga X1000 from Amigaone computer running AmigaOS 4.1 (aka as Workbench).
Of course this also means their pre-prepared Mac/Windows speech is now worthless.
If they want to know about the Amiga OS refer them to to www.a-eon.com.
If they ask where you get software from say www.amient.net and www.amiga.org,
Sometimes they ask for the name of your internet browser.
If they do say that you use a variation of Firefox as your internet browser.
I was tranfered to another person who claimed that he was the first person and that the reason his voice was different was that he had removed his mask and that his voice was no longer muffled. Even though I could hear the first person talking clearly in the background.
He tried to get me to divulge my IP address but I made out I could not find it.
Eventually he just hung up.
Normally they then try to get me to download some remote access software (from www.anydesk.com or www.teamviewer.com) to help them do the remote hack my system. When they do this I tell them that there were no versions of these software programs that would run on my Amiga. This really pisses them off as they think they have a sucker on the line but cannot do anything about it.
Keep them on as long as possible. It annoys them and stops them scamming others.
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