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This is from a scammed user from last year <quote> Kev Do you know anything about an outfit called TEAM VIEW? Every time my machine crashes I am invited to tick a few boxes on a pop-up. Sometimes I tick the boxes, sometimes I don't. I thought that responses went to MicroSoft who sat on them. We receive telephone calls quite often, I am sure that they are from India, offering to put things right. i now think that these calls come a day or two after I have click the report button. This afternoon I asked them a few questions. They are called Team View 5 and they seemed to be leading me towards getting software from them.When I was asked to click on RUN on a download box I felt it unsafe to proceed further and backed out. Are they genuine or are they selling anti virus software? How do they get these reports? </quote> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 18:33 +0000, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Simon Waters wrote: > > Presumably located somewhere with no working legal system, any > > indication of location? > > Not really. The guy's English was pretty good but he did have a > foreign accent. My guess would be Indian, but I'm terrible at > recognising accents. Not sure about the lack of legal system where he > is based though. If I paid a handful of people to perform this kind of > scam from my livingroom, using some Skype-like technology, and make > sure we'd only target people abroad, would it be easy for me to be > caught? I spoke to the guy for a few minutes but other than the > accent, there was nothing that would point to his location, or that > would be useful to any law enforcement agency anywhere in the world. > > I can't imagine these schemes making them lots of money; esepcially > for those who make the calls. So I would guess a country with pretty > low basic wages. > > What worried me about the apparent call centre he was calling from > wasn't so much the size of them scam, but the professionalism. I > always thought this was for the work-from-home types. > > Martijn. > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq