Virus phone scam

Published by Matt B on Wednesday 22 February 2012

Just a reminder to all our readers not to be taken in by the new spate of scam phone calls.

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Paul Taylor wrote:

I've just had the umpteenth call from somebody wanting to "help protect my computer from attack by a virus that my protection won't repel". The Asian sounding man said he worked for Arjuna Internet Security of 11 Baker Street. It is a scam. Don't do anything with your computer that they ask you to.
23/02 04:21:58 PM

Matt B wrote:

That's right it is a scam - a very slick one that has fooled a lot of people.
29/02 12:42:33 PM

pgb wrote:

Just had a call from this outfit which lasted 40 mins. He ended up giving me a lecture for wasting his time! It is very slick and easy to be fooled. He gave an address (124, Baker Street, LONDON, WU1 6TY) and a phone number (0808 280 2039 - although he didn't give me the leading 0). I called it back and talked to someone else from the same outfit who told me it was perfectly safe to continue the call and do what was asked. Is there anywhere these scams can be reported?
29/03 08:39:50 PM

John wrote:

My father-in-law paid these people £65 by debit card and let them install software on his PC. Going round today to see what's on there and remove it. Luckily he keeps no bank or card details on there and doesn't have a PayPal account.
07/04 07:59:47 AM

martin wrote:

i had a call earlier today which i knew was a scam cause he couldn`t even tell me who my internet provider was so then i decided to start firing technical questions at him and kept him going round in circles, after all he called me only seemed polite to chat to him for as long as possible, so if you get a call dont be rude be nice talk about the weather keep them going for as long as you can be bothered costing them and saving some poor less unfortunate people who think that asian sounding darren from arjunaa internet security really is going to help you |
16/05 11:55:23 PM

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