Have u ever received a threatening email from ur inbox?
I have..have u?
Called "spoofed" email!
Called "spoofed" email!
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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Yes. Best advice I can give is 'never deal with emails when you're not fully alert'. I nearly clicked on a link because I was tired...just stopped myself in time.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK Yes - that has happened to me too - talked into letting a caller pretending to be BT, take remote control while he continued talking to me by 'phone.
Luckily I became suspicious early enough to say I had an "appointment" that morning. "Only about another half-hour", he assured me.
"I'm already running late", I replied, continuing the Little White Lie. We agreed to finish next day, starting at 10am.
He did telephone as agreed, but the blighter had locked my PC so I could not use it in the meantime, let alone scan and cleanse it. This time it was to call me by a foul name: he'd realised I had turned the computer and modem off so he could not reach it, though was not to know I had also taken financial safety steps.
"Takes one to know one," I said, calmly, and rang off. Never heard from him again.
It cost £65 for professional recovery, luckily without losing anything. The attacker had installed a remote-control programme made by a German company for genuine business IT managerment, but stolen by criminals for identity and financial theft.
Luckily I became suspicious early enough to say I had an "appointment" that morning. "Only about another half-hour", he assured me.
"I'm already running late", I replied, continuing the Little White Lie. We agreed to finish next day, starting at 10am.
He did telephone as agreed, but the blighter had locked my PC so I could not use it in the meantime, let alone scan and cleanse it. This time it was to call me by a foul name: he'd realised I had turned the computer and modem off so he could not reach it, though was not to know I had also taken financial safety steps.
"Takes one to know one," I said, calmly, and rang off. Never heard from him again.
It cost £65 for professional recovery, luckily without losing anything. The attacker had installed a remote-control programme made by a German company for genuine business IT managerment, but stolen by criminals for identity and financial theft.