Have you been scammed in the last 12 months?
Poll - Total Votes: 26
Yes
No
Nearly, but stopped by the bank
You can only vote on one answer.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I voted "Nearly" but it was me who stopped it, not the bank.
It was not a straightforwards fraud attempt but a ruse to let the criminals install "Anydesk" on my computer.
Anydesk is a bona-fide programme by a German IT company, intended for business to help them maintain widely-scattered private company systems, but the criminals have stolen copies. It allows remote-control, file transfers and monitoring.
Fortunately I realised what was happening in time to invent a medical appointment as an excuse to stop the installing. The crook and I were in touch by 'phone, so I innocently arranged he'd finish next day. In fact as soon as I knew he'd stopped playing with my PC I switched it and the modem at the mains, went straight to my bank, explained what had happened, and cancelled my cards.
I found later he'd locked my computer, costing me over £60 to recover, luckily without losing anything.
The useless coward did ring back, punctually too. He had discovered he could no longer reach my computer - it and the modem were still switched off at the wall socket - and so realised I had rumbled him.
He called me an extremely obscene name.
I replied calmly, "Takes one to know one", and quietly hung up.
He did not try again.
It was not a straightforwards fraud attempt but a ruse to let the criminals install "Anydesk" on my computer.
Anydesk is a bona-fide programme by a German IT company, intended for business to help them maintain widely-scattered private company systems, but the criminals have stolen copies. It allows remote-control, file transfers and monitoring.
Fortunately I realised what was happening in time to invent a medical appointment as an excuse to stop the installing. The crook and I were in touch by 'phone, so I innocently arranged he'd finish next day. In fact as soon as I knew he'd stopped playing with my PC I switched it and the modem at the mains, went straight to my bank, explained what had happened, and cancelled my cards.
I found later he'd locked my computer, costing me over £60 to recover, luckily without losing anything.
The useless coward did ring back, punctually too. He had discovered he could no longer reach my computer - it and the modem were still switched off at the wall socket - and so realised I had rumbled him.
He called me an extremely obscene name.
I replied calmly, "Takes one to know one", and quietly hung up.
He did not try again.
