RicME85 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 thats a crafty one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inglorius Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I had an email from a Nigerian businessman who wanted me to send them 10 grand to invest in a platinum mine in Lagos does this count and should I send him the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 14 minutes ago, Inglorius said: I had an email from a Nigerian businessman who wanted me to send them 10 grand to invest in a platinum mine in Lagos does this count and should I send him the money. Yes send the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Millenniumram Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Are you lot telling me the Saudi prince is going to be giving me my mansion that I gave him £100000 for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kevin Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Had a phone call asking for my bank account details as they had my money from a PPI claim .The subsequent conversation went like this . Me -I haven't had a PPI claim ,you must think I am stupid ,no chance of my details . Them-We need it to put your money in ,He then starts swearing Me- If you were legitimate you wouldn't be swearing you [tirade of swear words] Them- why are you giving me this **** Me- I then tell him that I will find him and seriously damage his health Them- There is then another voice on the line saying put the phone down quick . Absolute tossers . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicME85 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I had one once where I put the phone down on him and he rang back and gave a load of verbal abuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GboroRam Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Data is big business. An email address may only be worth a fraction of a penny but with databases of millions of addresses it's serious money. Add some personal information like health information or location and that data becomes even more valuable. Add bank info and it's a gold mine. When sending out a phishing attack the hacker is looking for a large number of targets and works on the laws of probability. He'll work with millions of potential targets and if a fraction of a percentage get through, it'll make thousands or tens of thousands of successes. A new variant of phishing is spear phishing. Instead of targeting millions of accounts they aim for big targets - one success against a large corporate is potentially worth more than the sum of thousands of small targets. They will send emails claiming to be a significant person in a business to others in the same company. Say an email alleging to be from the CEO to the finance director asking for an invoice to be settled asap. Of course the attached pdf is actually a virus and bang! you're hit. And hackers are now evolving how they work. Previously they were interested in your banking details etc. More and more though they realise that the person who most values your data is you. They find ways to infect your files and hold them to ransom, only uninfecting them once you pay - without their unencryption keys you have no data. Millions of pounds are lost to these scams. When you see how they operate it's scary. You know everything is now sold as a cloud "service" - software as a service, information as a service etc: now there us ransomware as a service. For a few hundred pounds worth of bitcoin you can access the software made to perform these scams, they operate like a professional business so you have technical support and everything you would expect from a business - it's a world of its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I feel sorry for the people caught out, sometimes these scammers are very plausible. I've heard of a case recently where a very tech savvy, massively experienced businessman fell for a scam and was persuaded to hand over millions to someone masquerading as a football manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Ram Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 40 minutes ago, reveldevil said: I feel sorry for the people caught out, sometimes these scammers are very plausible. I've heard of a case recently where a very tech savvy, massively experienced businessman fell for a scam and was persuaded to hand over millions to someone masquerading as a football manager. What about the experienced international football manager who fell for a scam trying to swindle money around to rich businessmen eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 25 minutes ago, Lord_Ram said: What about the experienced international football manager who fell for a scam trying to swindle money around to rich businessmen eh? Gets what he deserves, how much money does he want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 5 hours ago, Inglorius said: I had an email from a Nigerian businessman who wanted me to send them 10 grand to invest in a platinum mine in Lagos does this count and should I send him the money. Go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 My wife has a novel new approach and now says something like .. "Would your parents be proud of you working for a company that does what you are doing ?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicME85 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 The thing that got me most with the woman in the video I posted...surely if the PC was that badly infected with muck to require a service charging 5k to fix it she should of realised she could of nipped down to Aldi and picked up a new PC for £200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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