Fraud!!!!!!!!

[imalikalotapuss]

I hope this has happened to anybody else, a icon shows up on my computer that says live sex shows!!! so like an idiot i opened it. The next thing I know a message pops up telling my phone was charged 39.95 for this site. gave me a username and password, along with an e-mail address that is not valid. theres a phone number to call if you have problems, GUESS what a disconnected number!! I have aol so I contacted them and they researched the website, and they say it is a fraudulent website!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: I hope this kinda stuff doesn't happen to anybody else. If anybody wants the web address of this phony site pm-me. also if anybody has a suggestion about this, let me know. If feel like a got up the old shoot!!:(

[Sharni]

Dialers are common.......they appear on your desktop usually after surfing porn sites

Well the do for me anyway

As you've learnt be careful what you click on....If you didnt put it there...deletion is the best policy

[Steph]

Wow, I've never heard of this before. Thanks for the heads up.

[LixyChick]

Thanks for the info....sorry about your troubles!

[Lilith]

Do they insinuate this charge will be on your phone bill? If so I would think a call to your phone company would take care of it. Must happen to people often. I have cable and have not heard of this problem.

[Catch22]

There is another going around. It claims to be from your bank and asks for account details. It has been hitting Australia.

[Belial]

I got that one, Catch22. Got suspicious when I received an email from a bank that I'm not a customer of, :rolleyes: They use a flaw in Internet Explorer to direct you to a site that appears to be legitimate but in fact is not.

[Catch22]

I got it to. It was on the news last night as well about it.

[imalikalotapuss]

Thanks for everyone's responses. I'm trying to get the phone company to look into this. I had never heard of such a thing. I guess you live and learn I just hope no one else makes the same mistake as i did>

[Bilbo]

Originally posted by Catch22
I got it to. It was on the news last night as well about it.

Wonder which bank it was that was on TV?
The big Four have known about this problem since August, two of which took 2 months to put up an alert on their sites.

this Ghost site originated in the US, and has been alternating between the Big 4 since August 7 2003

[Catch22]

Originally posted by Bilbo
Wonder which bank it was that was on TV?
The big Four have known about this problem since August, two of which took 2 months to put up an alert on their sites.

this Ghost site originated in the US, and has been alternating between the Big 4 since August 7 2003

ANZ

[jennaflower]

makes me wonder.... those of us who don't use a phone line to connect to the net (thus they have no abiltity to charge it to a phone), can they still TRY to scam us that way..

[Catch22]

Originally posted by jennaflower
makes me wonder.... those of us who don't use a phone line to connect to the net (thus they have no abiltity to charge it to a phone), can they still TRY to scam us that way..

I think they can if the cable co your with is also you phone co.

[imalikalotapuss]

Well it looks like I may come out ok after all, phone company doesn't have any record of the call being made. My ISP rep told me that my computer probably had spyware on it. Not knowing what this was, I was told that some website installed like a virus and that everything I do online is capable of being monitored, credit card purchase, signing on to pay per view websites and all kinds of viruses. There is a software that i'm going to get that will keep this from happening again! I hope some of you maybe learned from my mistake and lack of knowledge of all the BS that can be pulled on you without even realizing it.:(

[Lilith]

The spyware and trojan situation is a much worse problem to me than spam emails. I can easily avoid opening an email but the damn spyware is sneaky as hell.

[musketeer]

Originally posted by Lilith
The spyware and trojan situation is a much worse problem to me than spam emails. I can easily avoid opening an email but the damn spyware is sneaky as hell.

I'm with you on that Lil there should be as much attention paid to outlawing spyware as there is to spam.

A program I use to get rid of it is called "Spybot" that you can get free online - sorry I don't have the url to hand. Another is "Spywareblaster" and you can get this from:

www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

it also has free updates to keep up with the spyware.

[Lilith]

This thread has that link muskateer

http://216.150.92.84/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18030&highlight=spybot


But even with that you can still get fucked. Every time I think it's gone, the bitch is back. It would be ok but I do a lot of banking and shopping online.

[Sharni]

Either a particular website you go to or something you download is reinfecting your system Lil

I just spy botted my puter (2 weeks old) and got 150 spyware off it and am now innoculated against most

Though there are some that i know are on here...1 is preinstalled by Compaq....and the other is on a program i want to use...if i get rid of the spy the program refuses to work *L*

But i can live with 2.....neither are password grabbers or key loggers

[Catch22]

Hotmail drops a lot of spys on the puter.

[Sharni]

Porn sites are bad for spyware....also sites for desktop themes (screensavers, skins etc)

Cant say i've seen many appear after using Hotmail...but i just may be lucky

[Catch22]

I use netscape with java off when surfing. A lot of them are java and made for ie.

[SuzyQ]

I have been using AdAware for about a year, and cuts way down on my spam. I run it twice a week, and it is free...