They ask you to go to a website then demand money from you?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:04, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Pretty much they say "I'm from microsoft and oh noes your windows is infected go to www.legitimate-website.org/honest to fix it."
then you go there and they say, "now just accept the download and the active x plugins" etc and then you're infected with a keylogger or something.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:06, Reply)

Ahh OK

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:07, Reply)

The ones I spoke to for over half an hour kept asking me to go to a logmein site
so that they could repair my computer remotely for me.
Luckily I was lying about having a computer in front of me.
Still I managed to get them to call back three times over the next week to keep trying.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:09, Reply)

yup, that's what they do..
know a couple of people who've been done over, E-mail accounts hacked etc. Not nice when all your contacts list inc vicar, school etc gets hardcore porn from you.....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:18, Reply)

I'd have thought the vicar would be quite pleased about this

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 13:28, Reply)