Re: Social Engineering phone call
Martin Potgieter <martin-c16ewtXvm85g7ZbojU7cYfd9D2ou9A/[email protected]>
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On 17 Jul 2012, at 9:31 AM, Charles Leaver wrote: > Hi, > Has anybody reading this mail received a phone call recently from > somebody very Indian sounding who battles his way through a script > which aims to get his target to do something sinister with their > computer? Yes we received a couple of these over the past 2 months. Little did the poor guy know he was phoning an IT security company. > I received such a phone call yesterday but unfortunately > after one of my answers was too cocky he hung up. > I'd love to know firstly whether this is happening to a lot of people > but maybe more importantly what he was going to end up trying to get me > to do, and how. They try to scare you into going to a URL which I believe may give them remote control either with an exploit or trojan. They claim to be part of the company they are phoning, which was an obvious give away as our entire company is in one office and every employee knows every employee. Unfortunately I did not take any of the calls, would have loved to have a bit of fun. Martin _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz