some guy scamming

[ricky818]

ok here goes ive got broadband housce phone and im on wi fi 1 day i a nice nigerian man phones me up from the "windows security centre" my computers been sending error messages to them and he guna help me so i told him to piss off nigerian bleedin scammer, and put the phone down, many weeks later the man phones me again this time thow hes from the microsft securty centre "there learing lol" bla bla bla error ect, so he tells me to turn the pc on go to start run then type EVENTVWR.exe so i do this wasting his time click here click there ect until i can see adminstrator events loads of errors critical errors i no they dont meen anything to the layman and wont stop the pc . but now he ask me to type IEXSPLORE SUPPORT>EXE at this point i switch the internet off type the command in the run box so i know its got admin privalge it lauches the internet exsplorer i end the conversation, nock it off later i look it up warns me of rouge programs now if i type the same thing IEXSPLORE SUPPORT.ME it says windows\cant find it ect so its not on my system, but when i was on the phone to the scammer it lauched internet expllorer what i want to no is how and if i would of had the internet been on would a rouge file have downloadid ? and how did the bloody git get me name, i told him the internet was off i had a dongal needid toping up he ask arnt you on broadband he new i was. can any one give me there thoughts cheers.

[Mosaic1]

Being that I commit a lot of typos, this is not a criticism. However, when describing an incident like this one, you need to be careful so we can assess the situation.


You started internet explorer. And sent it to a site. The site has a logmein screen which you use to talk to a "Tech." aka scammer. A supposed tech may take over your computer and you'll beome infected, not fixed.
Personal information will be stolen. You may be required to pay for ther "help.." Great! Now you have given out your credit card number. Ouch. That's a recipe for disaster.

For anyone reading this.

Microsoft doesn't call people unless they have submitted a request to Microsoft.

It's easy to mislead you using information on the average computer into believing these claims. They scare you, then send you to a site where you can connect to a so called tech. Then they follow an agenda to rob you and infect your system.


How did they get your number? It could be random dialing. They could have either bought or stolen mailing lists....

Just hang up on these people. Don't engage them, don't spend any time. Just hang up and never, ever for one minute trust them.

[ricky818]

thanks for that cheers

[Mosaic1]

You're welcome.


I forgot to welcome you to the forums earlier. So, Welcome to The Forums. Better late than never.


Mo

[ricky818]

ive just typed it again "iexplore support.me" it lauches internet exploprer and takes me to this page [secure.logmeinrescue.com / Customer / Code.aspx] its a log in for a tech it says cheers, cheeky buggers.