I understand where you are coming from John but for instance I had a
withheld phone call this afternoon and it was from Dyson who are coming
to
repair my cleaner tomorrow morning. Now if I ignored the call then I
would
miss out on the appointment. Likewise hospitals tend to withhold their
numbers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "john gallagher" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 11.07 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Computer Scam: Warning
> hi there this is why should should use true call this is one of my
> zapped
> numbers they are trying to get clever now and showing there number. i
> never ever pick the phone up to this kind of number or person and it is
> a
> shame open reach cannot stop it and we have to buy extra tools to do
> so. i
> was getting 4 or five calls per day some were genuen piano tuning calls
> but again never ever answer them i say. these people are getting very
> very
> clever it can be very scarey though but now for me i do not get these
> calls because of true call.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pele West <pele.west@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Access UK <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, 11 August 2014 10.59 am
> Subject: [access-uk] Computer Scam: Warning
>
0was
0was
0was Hi Everyone
0was
0was I know most of us know about these scams, but I thought I would
share my
0was experience of one. I have to confess that I did not just put the
phone
0was down, which I should have done, as I was intrigued to see how things
0was would go.
0was
0was An Asian gentleman rang up last Friday afternoon. He knew my surname
and
0was initial, which is the same as my husband's. He knew our address.
0was
0was I asked for his phone number which was
0was 02033 180712
0was
0was He said his company was
0was Windows Technical Department
0was Windows Service Centre
0was
0was He said he was investigating a cyber security breach and needed to
0was change our computer licence. He gave me the following licence
number:
0was
0was 888DCA60-FC0A-11CF-8F0F-00C04FD7D062
0was
0was He said I should type Assoc from the DOS Command line to see if this
0was number was correct.
0was
0was I put the phone down and did some work with Google. I found an
article
0was on the net which contained this same licence key and a very similar
0was phone number.
0was
0was My computer also has this key. It is shown on a line beginning
0was
0was $diszfsendtotarget7clsid
0was
0was When he rang back I told him what I had found and he evinced
surprise.
0was
0was He then said that if I did not let him give me a new licence key he
0was would take the current key away and my computer would not work
again.
0was This would happen in 3 hours.
0was
0was I told him he was talking rubbish and he said if I thought he was a
scam
0was he could not help me.
0was
0was I have found out from a Technical Support person at Eset that the
0was licence keys are issued by MicroSoft to different manufacturers. So
Dell
0was have one, Acer have another, and so on.
0was
0was Needless to say, I am sending this message from my PC 3 days later.
0was
0was I think some people could be rather upset if they were told their
0was machines would not work with their current licence key.
0was
0was Pele West
0was
0was
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