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Old 12-13-2011, 12:26 AM   #21
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I'm so paranoid of scams that i even had to look up a citi financial toll free number on-line to make sure it was a legit number before giving them verfication information.
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Old 12-13-2011, 06:17 AM   #22
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So someone just called my home phone number to tell me I had a Trojan horse on my computer.

She got me to type in MSCONFIG into my Windows search and sure enough half of my programs are listed as 'stopped'. Mostly Microsoft programmes.

She sounded sort of legit but when she asked to remotely connect to my computer via www.ammyy.com I naturally got anxious and asked who she was and how she got my info. She said she was with some web server and she got my info via my Windows computer.

Anyway we got cut off but now I want to know... do I really have a Trojan Horse and if I do what should I do? Call Microsoft?
I bet you have a Trojan now, unless they already got all the info they needed ( ie personal/password/contact list) - They didn't 'get disconnected' , they got what they needed done, and hung up.

The minimum I would do in a situation like yours is scan for viruses. Ideally, I would nuke and rebuild - you never know what kind of backdoor has been installed that won't come up on a malware scan. This happened to my grandparents, and I rebuilt both of their machines for them to be safe.
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Old 12-13-2011, 04:06 PM   #23
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I bet you have a Trojan now, unless they already got all the info they needed ( ie personal/password/contact list) - They didn't 'get disconnected' , they got what they needed done, and hung up.

The minimum I would do in a situation like yours is scan for viruses. Ideally, I would nuke and rebuild - you never know what kind of backdoor has been installed that won't come up on a malware scan. This happened to my grandparents, and I rebuilt both of their machines for them to be safe.
How could they have got what they needed? I didn't do anything over the phone except check my msconfig and go to the ammyy.com homepage but not click on any links there.

I think they hung up because I clearly wasn't being uncooperative and asking them all sorts of probing questions like 'so who exactly are you?'
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How could they have got what they needed? I didn't do anything over the phone except check my msconfig and go to the ammyy.com homepage but not click on any links there.

I think they hung up because I clearly wasn't being uncooperative and asking them all sorts of probing questions like 'so who exactly are you?'
Ahh, then you are fine. I read what you wrote as you had opened up an Ammyy Admin session and then got disconnected.
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Old 12-13-2011, 07:41 PM   #25
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So someone just called my home phone number to tell me I had a Trojan horse on my computer.

She got me to type in MSCONFIG into my Windows search and sure enough half of my programs are listed as 'stopped'. Mostly Microsoft programmes.

She sounded sort of legit but when she asked to remotely connect to my computer via www.ammyy.com I naturally got anxious and asked who she was and how she got my info. She said she was with some web server and she got my info via my Windows computer.

Anyway we got cut off but now I want to know... do I really have a Trojan Horse and if I do what should I do? Call Microsoft?
I'm not sure if you're trying to troll us..

If you're serious, how the heck did you not get taken advantage of by a "Nigirian Prince"?
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Old 12-13-2011, 08:09 PM   #26
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I'm not sure if you're trying to troll us..

If you're serious, how the heck did you not get taken advantage of by a "Nigirian Prince"?
Rest assured this is not a scam. Nor am I prince. I am a simple goat herder.
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I got a call from Microsoft a while back and I started to have some fun with the guy as I thought he was telling me there was a problem with my windows in my house.....later on in the call I told him I was running the beta version of windows red. I hear him speaking to someone in the back ground and he then hung up.

The fact he called from a 999 area code also tipped me off........
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Old 12-13-2011, 09:24 PM   #28
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Oh dear . . .
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Old 12-13-2011, 09:56 PM   #29
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I love the phishing email addresses that scammers use. Like Microsoft tech support or RBC banking would be using Yahoo mail accounts.

By the way, the next time somebody calls about trojans just pretend to be confused and start talking about condoms to them. "Why do I need a Trojan when I look up Amy on my computer?"
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Old 12-22-2011, 09:00 AM   #30
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I just got off the phone with the lovely people running this scam.

ANT Software Solutions was the name of the company, they're located in Ontario Tower, when I pressed for what the address was so I could mail the guy a Christmas Card for helping me (literally said that) he couldn't tell me, then he didn't know what city he was in. When I told him I found this dis-concerning he told me

NSFW!


Then he hung up.

Spoiler!


This was about a half hour or so. My brother was trying not to laugh his arse off while listening to me, he was even nice enough to make me coffee as he was entertained.

Remember folks, if you get this REPORT IT. The number they gave me Phonebusters didn't have yet, it was just activated. So reporting can do some good.
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I have a Trojan horse? My horse was bred in Alberta! You must be a scammer.
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Now that's hell a funny. But you need to really stretch it out and get them engaged on the phone. I would give someone $10.00 if they actually recorded themselves getting a scam telemarketer into a phone sex conversation against their will and the call lasted a minimum of 5 minutes

Must be included.

You have to get them to tell you what they're wearing.

You have to use the line "wait, I'm almost there"

You have to finish up with "oh god, oh god your service is making me paint the ceiling"
Wow, Captain. Just wow.
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Old 12-22-2011, 12:19 PM   #33
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I have a Trojan horse? My horse was bred in Alberta! You must be a scammer.
Hmmm I always thought a Trojan horse was a condom size.
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Old 12-22-2011, 01:26 PM   #34
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Wow Miisdpuck wow
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Oh Captain, I'd better stop.
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Maritime Q now has me hoping they give me a call so I can have some fun with the tards.
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Maritime Q now has me hoping they give me a call so I can have some fun with the tards.
I had so much fun, I regret not recording the conversation, and that they hung up before I could take the vulgarity to the next level.
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Oh Captain, I'd better stop.
How many times have I heard that before
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How many times have I heard that before
I'm thinking you're used to hearing: "Captain! Stop!"
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