{"id":2625,"date":"2012-10-04T06:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2012-10-04T06:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:03:29","slug":"update-to-scammers-on-the-prowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Update to &#8220;Scammers On The Prowl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2011 I had posted a somewhat off-topic warning about a security issue I had been encountering for months.<\/p>\n<p>I had been receiving unsolicited calls from individuals with thick Indian accents claiming to be &#8220;Software Maintenance Department of Online PC Care&#8221; asking me to give them access to my computer because of some alleged virus infection.<\/p>\n<p>This was of course a common con by that time, which also involved individuals claiming to represent Microsoft calling random numbers in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Basically they gained access, altered settings without the user&#8217;s knowledge and then proceeded to extort $49 to $450 from the user to &#8220;repair&#8221; the damage they had caused.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2012\/10\/pecon.shtm\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> in the United States have taken legal actions against these fraudsters yesterday, freezing their assets and demanding a halt to this activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission have also penalized the companies involved in this tech support scam in respect to Canada&#8217;s no call list legislation. <\/p>\n<p>If you have received a call of this nature, please file a complaint with the CRTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca\/plt-cmp-eng\" target=\"blank\">via this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2011 I had posted a somewhat off-topic warning about a security issue I had been encountering for months. I had been receiving unsolicited calls from individuals with thick Indian accents claiming to be &#8220;Software Maintenance Department of Online PC Care&#8221; asking me to give them access to my computer because of some alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[35,85,164,165,235,364,495,676,710,841,842,843,845,850,851,875,932,995,1041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}