I had some guy call me not once but twice the other night to which I yelled ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ I am trying to get laid. No more call backs LOL. I also had one guy call some months ago so I played around with him. When he asked for my IP address I asked him what his is so I can check whats wrong with his computer. He said that there was nothing wrong with his. I said same here nothing wrong with mine. He started to get mad. I said hey I am a computer tech and know there is not a thing wrong with my computer but I can look at his for him to make sure everything is fine. CLICK he hung up on me. So they called back and when I answered they hung up right away. They called back another time and my wife answered the phone and said ohh you talked to my husband about this. He said give me your IP Address and he will fix your computer for you. Click they hung up LOL
Hello guys, I'm a new user here, so I apologize if I'm going about this all wrong. I'm from Canada, and earlier today to make a long story short, I partially fell into the AMMYY scam. The gave the guy remote access for some time, and then when he asked me to make a payment I declined and he hung up. Nonetheless, upon inspecting my computer I realized that this **insert demeaning swear word here** deleted all of the files in my documents and some other ones. I do not have any important info on my laptop such as credit card info or anything, but I am concerned that they still have access to my computer, or any of the other devices attached to my router (if that's possible?) What exactly should be my next steps in dealing with this? Thanks a ton!!
Re: Ammyy Scam still working it! This forum is 1st that I've found that addresses the "Ammyy Scam" at length. It is alive and cheesy as ever! Today is Monday, January 28, 2013, and I just received 2 very unprofessional sounding phone calls at 1428 and 1434. I may be 73 yrs old [tomorrow is my actual BD], but this call sounded "scammy" from the get-go. Tip-offs: addressing me by my phone # not my name, speaking in an Indian-sounding accent, using words and phrases out of syntax, loud noises in background. Then we were suddenly disconnected. Can you believe that she called back within a minute? She apologized for the disconnect, but I said that it was OK because it gave me time to call my neighbor to come over. She continued her spiel, but I interrupted her to say that my neighbor was interested in what she had to say. She timidly said OK. I then explained that he was a law enforcement officer and was relaying all of the information to his chief. CLICK! She was gone. So sad that people stoop to this. She only had my phone number which is readily available. Just wonder what source they tapped to get it. And, is it mainly directed toward us "old fogies"?
Re: Ammyy Scam still working it! I doubt it has anything to do with age. I have had these calls, I don't even live in the US. They are most probably scam call centres situated somewhere in Pakistan, Bangladesh or India. They pick numbers out of the phone book & work their way through the English speaking world. What annoys me particularly is that there are plenty of people who still fall for this scam. It's not their fault of course, many people are not particularly computer-savvy. I wish the governments or police forces of these countries would close these 'expletive' call centres down. Alas, they are probably as corrupt as the scammers themselves.
Hi. I've muddled through most of the pages in this topic but have apparently missed the one crucial post on how to find ammmy on the computer and get rid of it. Not found by ad-remove or Revo Uninstall. Meanwhile... i'm going to start another topic concerning how I ended up with this, but topic will be re ZeuS trojan. Need someone to look at that one also. Thanks.
Surely the Ammy site software can just be removed from programs & features? It's not the software itself that's malware, but it allows unscrupulous scammers from the Indian Subcontinent to have access to your computer.
My lady got one of these calls, at work no less. She went along all the way through, installed the client and gave them access and everything. They looked through tons of the zips and logs and seemingly loaded some stuff onto the system. She kinda knew right away it was a scam and let them have at it on a vm. A vm full of all kinds of unimportant fluff stuff. Medical texts, marine biology, astronomy..
Yeah, it's still going on. I just got a call about 10 minutes ago from some guy saying their name was "Johnathan Finger" with an Indian accent... They still say that your computer is infected or is running slow and prompt you go to go to that ammyy website. Of course I didn't do it and I asked for his contact information and where he was calling from. He said from the Microsoft site in Manchester. So I called Manchester, talked to their IT support department and let them know what was going on. If it's been going on for this long, apperently they have been pretty successfull and this needs to stop.
Still going on and on and on......call came in from California 530-619-xxxx (CA, don't think so!-# was disconnected) did not answer-checked the number at 800notes - a foreigner calling claiming to be with Microsoft...etc.......I'm glad I have Caller ID just ignore them and let it ring!
i kept these guys on the phone for over an hour a couple weeks ago when they called i always answer just to mess with them. sometimes i tell them they reached a porn line, sometimes a escort service etc, sometimes i ramble on in italian while they keep trying to get a word in, sometimes i start reading them a china jade menu as a answer each time they ask me a question.... its just good fun and someone i dont at all feel bad messing with.
I admire your patience. It hasn't happened to me for quite a while but if they do phone me I usually politely ask the caller just how gullible they think that I am & put the phone down. If they call again right after that I might have some fun with them ...
Latest update-they have changed spoofed numbers-now shows an Illinois Call (was California) number 630-894-0625 (# subject to change of course and is disconnected).
I just got called by them. Same routine, they claimed they were from Microsoft. I asked for a callback number, they gave me 2961926714, read 2 numbers at a time (not the US way of reading a phone number - 29, 61, and so on). I pointed out there's no such area code as 296, they said it's California, no, there's no such area code. I said you work for Microsoft, who is the CEO? They couldn't answer. Their scam starts with their asking you to run 'eventvwr', the Microsoft Event Viewer, where they show you it lists a lot of errors (mine has over 8000). They asked how many and expressed great shock at the number and how that proved I had a lot of virus risk for them to help fix. I said no, they're harmless. He asied if I knew what the errors are, I said I'm not here to take a quiz from you, you say you are Microsoft support, you should know. He transferred me to a 'supervisor'. I'd told the first guy all along he was going to ask me to download something giving them access to my system, and it wasn't going to happen, he denied they would; the supervisor did, trying to get me to sownload ammyy. That led me to this thread when I googled it. Their caller ID was spoofed to 00000000000 (it's ridiculous that our phone system allows spoofing phone numbers. They could fix that). Heavy Indian accents; I'm surprised how long they stay on the phone after being told (almost immediately) it's a scam. Most scammers hang up on you the moment you indicate you aren't playing along with their scam (talking to you, 'Card Services').
Ok so today. My dad got a call from someone who says they're from microsoft. He gave the phone to me so that I could deal with it. They asked me to download ammyy and I was so stupid to fall for it. I was 'transferred' and some heavily indian accent guy told me that he is going to find all the 'viruses' and whatever. So I l gave him the ID adress on ammyy and for a while I let him on my dad's laptop. I know I was so dumb to fall for the scam. It wasn't until I went on my own cellphone and started searching if the ammyy was real. I found out that it was a scam. I panicked and took out the internet connection. I then ran to my laptop and started exiting and uninstalling the programs they've installed. I tried to unistall ammyy but it wasn't found in the programs when I was unistalling programs. So I stopped the connection on ammyy and deleted the .EXE. Shortly after, they had been calling non stop. They've stopped now. I almost fell for the scam and now I'm scared. I read that they look for your credit card information, etc. I also heard that these people can't be unstopped. I really am scared. I still feel paranoid. Is there anyone else I can do? My laptop operates Windows 8... I still feel like I should do more. Thank god I found out before anything else happened. I feel so terrible, because I am always extra careful to scams and viruses. I always knew better but I fell for a scam today, and I can't stopped thinking about how much trouble I could have put my lap top through.
Scam AMMYY: need help I got a call today from someone claiming that my computer was not updating with the Microsoft servers. Here to help me for free! I knew it was a scam and decided to play along and asked them to call me back. When they called back, I recorded the voices and started Problem Step Recorder and created a system restore point on a computer I rarely use. I did let them install AMMYY just to see what they do. They go to the Event Viewer and claim that all events are errors. Then onto msconfig in run. They had me look at services. They claim that all stopped services have been stopped by viruses and my computer will not start soon. I played along for over an hour. Now they tell me that I have so many errors and viruses that it will take a long time to fix my computer. And they will have to charge me. Ultimately, told them I couldn't afford them. I have turned off that computer and want to use it for evidence to stop those nasty scammer people. I have a couple of questions: Unfortunately, he turned off the Problem Step Recorder at the very end and I did not get to save it. Where can I find that file? I live in the US. Who can I report this to? Fire Fly
Re: Scam AMMYY: need help fire_fly, the file is normally saved to the Desktop as a zip file, however, if the recording was stopped and the file was not named & saved, it could be lost. Review: Solving Windows 7 and Application problems quickly using Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) FYI. Report Fake Tech Support Calls.
Re: Scam AMMYY: need help JR, Thanks for your prompt response. I thought that there is a temporary file where files are stored temporarily until they are saved or closed. Sort of like when you watch a video, you can find it and copy it to another location. I'm not sure where to look and what type of file to look for. I hope this clarifies my question. Fire Fly
Re: Scam AMMYY: need help fire_fly, not that I'm aware of. When PSR is stopped, it responds with a Save As dialog box, and if the Cancel button is clicked, before entering a file name, you see this warning: Meaning: if Yes is clicked, the info is gone!
i'm a 16 years old gamer and I had this call tonight. I wasn't sure about it, and they were very persuative, and my computer really had some problem. so I thrusted him, but when I arrived to the "talk to a techinician" step, I gave him the wrong ID several time, just in time to read forum, then I asked him about all these hacks. He answered me that it wasn't true, and told him to go ~snip~. Be careful about it people, watch your back and alway check forum before going in.
