RangerXML
Supreme [H]ardness
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- Apr 16, 2006
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Just a friendly warning, a foreign call center is calling around, telling people that they are infected and asking details of any possible illegal activity (which I'm sure will be used later), trying to get you to go to a website and download software. They claim to be with Microsoft, but are very vague about who they are trying to contact and being able to uniquely identifying your computer (unless you go to their website and download their software).
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Oh for the love of god, they are calling now with the "we got a notification that your computer has a virus". I just got a call from some foreign call center that claimed that my PC was not communicating with their update service and if I had downloaded anything illegal, without identifying my computer, my IP, somekind of unique identifier to proof that it was my computer and than proceed to not even be able to identify me, the person that they called. I played a long a bit and asked, "let me guess, for me to see the problem I have to go to a website and download something?" to which I got a yes answer, that was the end of the conversation. I mean, are they even trying, I mean the iPhone Class-action phishing email is more believable and I've been able to talk people into worse on April Fools Day, but to attack without doing any kind of home work! I mean, this is like trying to do social engineering, without knowing how to social engineer (and going with the cheap call center that has a horrible accent). Worse part, I'm at home, still in my PJs, drinking coffee and trying to wake up, not in the best of moods to begin with.
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Oh for the love of god, they are calling now with the "we got a notification that your computer has a virus". I just got a call from some foreign call center that claimed that my PC was not communicating with their update service and if I had downloaded anything illegal, without identifying my computer, my IP, somekind of unique identifier to proof that it was my computer and than proceed to not even be able to identify me, the person that they called. I played a long a bit and asked, "let me guess, for me to see the problem I have to go to a website and download something?" to which I got a yes answer, that was the end of the conversation. I mean, are they even trying, I mean the iPhone Class-action phishing email is more believable and I've been able to talk people into worse on April Fools Day, but to attack without doing any kind of home work! I mean, this is like trying to do social engineering, without knowing how to social engineer (and going with the cheap call center that has a horrible accent). Worse part, I'm at home, still in my PJs, drinking coffee and trying to wake up, not in the best of moods to begin with.
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