![]() My friends call me 'Cinnamon.' If you want to call me Cinnamon, that's fine." (The scammer actually starts calling Ted "Cinnamon.") "I mean, we've been on the phone an hour and 50 minutes together. "You don't have to keep calling me 'sir,'" Ted said. Suddenly, Ted is claiming to be hot and tense and says, "I need to take off my pants, it's way too hot." Next, he tells the scammer to address him less formally. I'm a responsible internet user, I don't want to be some of these hacker types that infect the web and stuff like that." "And I don't want my machine being dangerous, for sure, I mean that would be bad, that would be very bad, I don't want it to be bad, I want it to be good. "I want this machine to be secured, for sure," he said. Ted asked the scammer if he could make his Windows 95 computer run as fast as his Windows Vista one, and professed his desire to be a good citizen. On Vista, Ted claimed he couldn't follow the scammer's instructions until he finished installing the non-existent Service Pack 3 (Vista only has two service packs). Ted switched back and forth between his Windows 95 and Windows Vista computers. All right, it's not connecting to my CompuServe account for some reason. All right, hold on, so this is called - I need to connect it to the phone. God, it's an hour and eight minutes we've been on the phone, this is taking forever. "OK, so you want me to connect to the internet with this. Ted spent much of his call pretending to struggle to connect to the internet. He dragged out the call by pretending to connect his Windows 95 and Windows Vista computers to CompuServe via dial-up internet, by providing an expired credit card number, and by providing absurd answers to basic questions. ![]() It's often known as the "ammyy" scam because users are sometimes directed to to install the remote desktop software.Ī good troll is a prepared troll, and Ted was ready. From there, the scammer convinces his mark to install a piece of software allowing remote access into the computer to clean up the problem, and to pay several hundred pounds in fees for the service. The scammer directs the user to look in the Windows Event Viewer, which shows a generally harmless list of error messages, and then says that this is a sign of serious infection. The scammer - who is generally from India but claims to live in the same country as the victim - tells whoever picks up the phone that their computer has been identified as having a virus. For the people who pose as Windows support technicians and cold call unsuspecting victims to warn them about bogus viruses, life is good as long as they can wrangle credit card numbers and remote PC access from the gullible. If fScanX Home Edition suits you, get the 4.06 MB app for 1.8.16 on PC.Pity the poor employees of companies like "Windows Technical Support" - scammers who make money by "fixing" computers that were never broken in the first place. This is a uniquely simple, flexible & Mac-like way to automate common scanning tasks using a “drag, drop, fill in the blanks” interface.
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