wenglishboy
Inactive User
SCAM ALERT 1:
I recieved a phone call by a pakistani yesterday telling me that my computer had a virus, he said he was from microsoft and asked me to switch my computer on and he would run through the problem with me.
Needless to say I told him to f**k Off and get a real job you thieving lazy f**k.
I can only presume he may have been after getting into my network or something. Perhaps he was outside on a laptop or something I dont know what exactly he was upto but he just tried to keep me on the phone pressuring me to switch on my pc.
SCAM ALERT 2:
A cardboard flyer was posted through a mates door the other day saying that they couldnt deliver a parcel, and he was to ring this phone number to regain his package. He said it looked not much unlike a Royal Mail flyer. He had the sense not to phone and did some checks online. It seems if he had phoned it, he would have been charged £315 just for connecting with the number let alone the amount of time he may have spent on the phone.
This is horrible considering there are a lot of grand parents at this time of year waiting on parcels for xmas etc.
But this led me to the idea of apart from facebook and twitter where do i warn others of this scam. Im not sure if there is an actual thread anywhere on this site where you can report ongoing scams so fellow users may spread the word and make the warnings go viral via theyre facebooks and twitters etc.
Perhaps a ticker tape of latest news on the DW Homepage different colour messages for different types of messages etc. eg Red is be warned and Green is be informed. Like a stock market ticker tape only with useful info on it.
What do you guys think? also if any mods know where scams are reported could they please move this to the relevent section thanks and regards for all your hard work chaps and chappesses
I recieved a phone call by a pakistani yesterday telling me that my computer had a virus, he said he was from microsoft and asked me to switch my computer on and he would run through the problem with me.
Needless to say I told him to f**k Off and get a real job you thieving lazy f**k.
I can only presume he may have been after getting into my network or something. Perhaps he was outside on a laptop or something I dont know what exactly he was upto but he just tried to keep me on the phone pressuring me to switch on my pc.
SCAM ALERT 2:
A cardboard flyer was posted through a mates door the other day saying that they couldnt deliver a parcel, and he was to ring this phone number to regain his package. He said it looked not much unlike a Royal Mail flyer. He had the sense not to phone and did some checks online. It seems if he had phoned it, he would have been charged £315 just for connecting with the number let alone the amount of time he may have spent on the phone.
This is horrible considering there are a lot of grand parents at this time of year waiting on parcels for xmas etc.
But this led me to the idea of apart from facebook and twitter where do i warn others of this scam. Im not sure if there is an actual thread anywhere on this site where you can report ongoing scams so fellow users may spread the word and make the warnings go viral via theyre facebooks and twitters etc.
Perhaps a ticker tape of latest news on the DW Homepage different colour messages for different types of messages etc. eg Red is be warned and Green is be informed. Like a stock market ticker tape only with useful info on it.
What do you guys think? also if any mods know where scams are reported could they please move this to the relevent section thanks and regards for all your hard work chaps and chappesses