mattr":2ujve2ig said:
Chris D":2ujve2ig said:
Please report these as they are very proactive and he said that the more people report them the greater chance of catching the perpetrators.
The chance of actually catching them is between none and zero. They might be able to stop them for a few weeks/days/hours tho.
The amount of publicity around phishing/scam emails of this type, both mainstream and geek news feeds, i'm still gobsmacked that anyone still falls for these things!
I sometimes fear for people of my parents generation / age. They tend to take a lot more than I do on trust - on the default assumption that things that look / sound genuine, are so.
Which tends to explain why they seem to be more taken in by cold-callers, and why in recent times there's been a lot more push for verification and ID cards for people who knock on doors.
The scam from foreign call centres where people are called then told there's a problem on their PC, the sad / unfortunate thing is, I can think of several people I know, that all other things being equal and them not being previously primed - they may well fall for such things.
It's the same when they go to electrical stores for things like TVs - several times, now, I've seen the stuff they've ended up with - cables that are way overpriced for what they need, one family member bought a "special" surge protected home entertainment power thing - which I saw on one of the big outlets websites last night for £70. On top of what they were buying originally, they're getting talked into several items that's taking them for a fair amount more than they need to be - and that's merely because they are taken in by the sales people, they haven't hunted out for, or chosen these things off their own back. The number of times I've told them that even in high-street stores, a decent SCART or HDMI cable shouldn't be costing them any more than £10, and if it does, to let me know and I'll get them something that's decent enough. But the number of times when I've looked at how these things are cabled up, and thinking somebody has just exploited them to spend that extra money.
It's not that these people lack intelligence - I think they're just of a generation that trusted more - people in authority, people assumed to be experts - and perhaps it was a more naive time, where the default assumption is that somebody ISN'T trying to scam you, or get you to spend a lot more than you need.
