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- Prank #25: Hang ups
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- Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
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- Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
- Cold calling percentages
- Beware of native language call scams – au
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Tag Archives: scammer
Why Don’t Phones Lets Us Record Calls (two way)? -ca
This was originally posted with a Canadian audience in mind, but it has relevance here in Australia and, I suspect, in most third world countries generally. Brain Jones, the author, is a programmer and works full time in the telecommunications … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged accountable, fighting fraud, fraud, phone, PSTN, record phone calls, recording device, scammer, telemarketer
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Investors duped by City Index Australasia’s cold-calling scam -au
Link: http://www.moneymanagement.com.au/news/financial-services/2012/cold-call-scammer-found-guilty
Posted in About telemarketing, Telemarketers, cold callers, blah blah blah...
Tagged ASIC, Blair Jason Travers, City Index Australasia (CIA), cold call, cold caller, Cold calling, Confidence trick, duped, false financial product information, misled, Peter Kell, scam, scammer, telemarketer, telemarketing
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Prank #25: Hang ups
#25. Hang ups – Ω TELEMARKETER: “Hello Mrs. Dong, we are affiliated with Macrohard Technologies; and in monitoring the internet it has come to our attention that your computer has a number of errors which makes it prone to attack … Continue reading
Posted in Pranks pranks pranks
Tagged attack, caper, cold caller, Cold calling, computer, event viewer, fraud, hang up, hook, Humor, Microsoft, prank, pranking, scam, scammer, telemarketer, telepest, unsolicited
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Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
Noah Magram, principal software engineer at security vendor Sourcefire, was called while at home by a fake antivirus company. He decided to see exactly what they do when a person grants access, only he gave them access to a virtual machine … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged cold caller, fraud, malware, Noah Magram, remote control, scam, scammer, Security, Sourcefire, technology, telemarketer, telepest, trickster, virtual machine
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Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
If you live in a western country and have a landline telephone with a listed phone number, chances are you’ve been “cold called” by someone on the other side of the world with an introduction that goes something like this: … Continue reading
Beware of native language call scams – au
Ask yourself: Is this an in-law or an outlaw calling? SCAMwatch (Australia) is advising consumers to beware of scammers who phone requesting money, speaking in the consumer’s native language including Serbian, Croatian, Polish and others. These callers will often say … Continue reading
Posted in Making the news
Tagged cold caller, fraud, native language call, overseas, relative, scam, scammer, telemarketer, unexpected call, unsolicited, unsolicited call
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Isle of Wight IT Phone Scam and Identity theft
Get a second opinion from a known source Warning: Isle of Wight residents have been warned to be on their guard after an apparent increase in IT related phone scams. The scammers are using multiple approaches. They may warn you … Continue reading
Posted in Making the news
Tagged cold caller, Cold calling, Identity theft, Isle of Wight, IT scam, scam, scammer, social engineering, telemarketer, unsolicited, warning
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Florida Man Gets A Five Year Prison Sentence For Telemarketing Scam « CBS Tampa
Don’t take callers at their word. A Florida man falsely told time-share owners in unsolicited calls that they had buyers for their properties. The scam solicited fees, proposed as refundable closing costs, in the thousands of dollars from victims. They scammed 22,000 people … Continue reading
Posted in Making the news
Tagged cold caller, Florida, guilty, man, North America, scam, scammer, solicted, telemarketer, telemarketing, time-share
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Computer error scam
Computer event-viewer errors Those scammers called again yesterday. You know, the ones who offer a glossed over, vague business name with Microsoft in it somewhere. He warned me of terrible errors on my PC that imminently threaten to crash my computer, which one … Continue reading
Posted in About telemarketing
Tagged computer errors, event viewer, Microsoft, scam, scammer, telemarketer
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