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These kinds of intrusions are like spies - you never know where they are and when they'll start harassing you. I'd like to think I have some nominal level of privacy, but it's rapidly disappearing in this tech oriented age.
At least I haven't seen any drones flying over head in my area...not yet.
I tried to remember what Phoenix had written sometime ago, based on her mother's responses. It was really cute.
I still wish I could find my whistle, or had a loud boat horn or a submarine horn to provide them with some ear piercing sounds.
(I should have said I took my computer to the ER and got a prescription for antibiotics, so the infection is being treated and I don't need their meddling.)
If spyware had been installed, that might be true, but they wouldn't be calling telling me they're spying on me. From what I've read, spyware operates silently.
What they try to do is get control of the computer, telling me that I need to enter certain keystrokes, combinations, etc. so they can remotely access the computer. They became very aggressive when they first called b/c I was a bit unsettled that Dell would have called to report "infection."
And therein lies one of the hoax flaws: they claim they can monitor my computer to see problems but need access to it to solve the problems.
Dell in fact does this when I call for Tech Support, but it's only after I log onto a Dell site and authorize them to use remote access for troubleshooting.
I've received about 5 of these fake tech support calls. These people have my name and know what brand of computer I use. In discussing the issue with Dell, I learned that they had been hacked, and someone had apparently stolen names of clients. The voices thus far are male, with Indian accents.
It changed to a Middle Eastern accent when another one of them called and I told him what action he could perform on himself. Then the calls became obscene ones.
FF, I usually google the fake numbers to find out what I can learn about them. The 800-number site if it's one of the hits has reports from others who've been pestered by the scammers. You can also tell if the call is an overseas one by googling the number; I wouldn't call them back either.
A few years ago there was a proliferation of calls from somewhere in the Caribbean. I don't remember what the exchange was, but a google search revealed the out-of-the-US location.
I wish I could call back that number, but I am afraid that it could be one of these numbers that capture your telephone number to make overseas calls.
Daily I get a local police report, and at least once a week someone falls for this IRS scam.
I have posted this info before, but here it is again. nomorobodotcom allows you to enter your phone number and it stops all robo calls. The phone rings once and is intercepted (who knows how) and the call is terminated. I set it up on my phone and we get 10+ of these calls daily. Hubby blesses me each time it rings once and goes away.
How the heck do they do that?
Luckily, Mom was home, intercepted the call and recognized it as a scam. BUT....Mom acknowledged that if she hadn't been there....she wasn't sure that her daughter wouldn't have started giving credit card or bank account info out....that's how terrified the poor kid was.....jeez....
Apparently, these IRS scams are up 400+% over last year....IRS dude interviewed referred to these scammers as "extremely adaptive" criminals....pretty apt, I think...
Well, at least a national news program gave some attention to the issue.
Those "personalized" letters are done easily with "mail merge". A merger code is inserted at specific points in the master letter, the computer operator/secretary prints and out come probably hundreds of letters, all personalized.
Mail merge was one of the functions I learned when I took a basic computer class back in the mid 90's.
FF, those phishing scams used to be prevalent with major banks and online retailers. I received I don't know how many phishers advising that my account with (Amazon, e-Bay, PayPal, this bank and that bank, and on and on) had been compromised and I needed to confirm my account number with them. Ha! Try again, scumbags.
I reported them to the real retailers for them to handle since it was an attempted fraud against them as well as me.
Lo and behold I got a regular email saying Verizon and had a different dollar amount. Got to admit, the email looked legit, but it did lack certain information that a legit email would contain.
So, anyway, before of that if you see something similar. The red flag for me is to look at the returning email address, usually it doesn't sound correct.
My aunt was always sending money off to one of those TV religious programs. She thought they had a personal relationship with her because the form letters for donations were set up to look like personal letters, with her name included in the body of the text. (rolling my eyes)
My Mom was able to stay, w/CG assistance in her condo until almost 91 YO (she's 94 YO now in ALF) but she was getting these calls several years before she had to leave her condo.
She still gets these calls. We (sibs) stay at the condo when visiting Mom and I am constantly amazed when I'm there at the number of "scam" calls. What's worse, now being an election year, are the number of political calls....and these people start at 7AM!!!
Mom's got these "talking" phones....they robotically read out the caller ID info and then any message..... I am on the best day crabby before my coffee.....can't tell you how P.O'd I am when I'm trying to take my first sip and plan a "busy" day dealing w/Mom'affairs only to be assaulted by the robo message from some politico....
Up North we have Amber Alerts for missing children....every time I drive to Mom's, I-75 is full of Silver Alerts for missing elders....SW FL is the elder scammers' paradise....
That might be a new one. Perhaps the free vacation, free money from Nigeria, indigent grandchild, payday loans, alleged IRS criminal action, and who knows what else are being replaced by someone with more nefarious intents, if that's possible.