| Your Online PC Doctor Scam | | Print | |
| Thursday, 01 September 2011 15:46 |
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A regular customer of ours contacted us today to say that she was being plagued by “Your Online PC Doctor”. She got contact details from them and the number she was given began with country code 020. This appears to me to be an Inmarsat satellite phone number which would be charged at 7 dollars per minute – that’s 420 dollars per hour folks. So be warned. It looks like these guys really want to be called back, they’re getting a cut of your call costs.
I’d also like to appeal to people who have been victims of these types of scammers to comment on what has been done to their machines. I’ve personally seen a number of machines where, after showing the customer the Event Log containing errors as a method of scaring them into using their services, they then disable that Event Logging service, presumably to stop the customer from being able to check it afterwards. Has anyone seen any other examples of sharp practice? The question I’m asked most is whether they are putting Spyware on the computers that the connect to – has anyone seen any evidence of that? Thanks for all the feedback. Awareness is the only thing that will prevent these people from scamming thousands more… Click here to send us your feedbacks. |
