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dqj999

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I had an interesting call from a scammer pretending to be from Openreach today. I started laughing at him, something that scammers really don't like ! I said I couldn't be bothered listening to him and hung up. Not to be put off, he rang back again and I asked him what was the purpose of the call. He said that hackers were operating on my area, and he at least had bothered to look up the name of the exchange area that he was calling, but didn't get much further into his script.

I asked him what ISP I was with, which he obviously didn't know, and he waffled on about representing multiple ISPs. He said he was calling from London. There was a fair amount of call centre background noise; I should have asked him if they were practising Covid spacing and how many of this colleagues were off with it.

In the end I asked him to call back when he knew my name but I haven't heard back from him since.

Where do you think he was going with this scam? I regret not letting him go a bit further. Was it an attempt to obtain my ISP login details or email details? It didn't seem that it could develop into a request for bank details.

Derek
 
Where do you think he was going with this scam?

Ultimately to get remote access to your PC, show you the "hackers" (probably via CMD > Netstat), and then "fix it" for you by selling you their "Ultimate Platinum Firewall with lifetime support"

Or a variation of the above.
 
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The scammers always have the same pattern. They want you to feel endangered and play on your emotions. It's really fun to play along with them and hang up on them when they think they got you.
 
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