[TriLUG] where to report scam phone call

Matt Flyer matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Wed Nov 2 14:40:16 EDT 2011


Seeing that it was a phone call, the FCC would probably have jurisdiction.  

The big problem will be to find a group that cares enough to not circular file your complaint.  Otherwise perhaps the FBI's spam/phishing report section?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Justis Peters <justis.peters at gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:32:09 
To: Triangle Linux Users Group<trilug at trilug.org>
Reply-To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: [TriLUG] where to report scam phone call

Today, I received a phone call that I believe was a scam. The caller 
claimed to be from "Windows Support" and said that my computer had been 
reporting that it was infected via "internet protocol". He then wanted 
to know if my computer has any issues with being slow.

I egged him on and pretended to be a slightly clueless Windows user. I 
booted up a Windows system, so that I could play along with the things 
he wanted me to do. He wanted me to go to the event log. One of the 
first things he wanted me to do was filter the log to not show 
"information" level logs. Then he wanted me to delete an entry. When 
that didn't work (since I had intentionally logged in as an unprivileged 
user), he started asking more questions about the events in the log, the 
users associated with the events, etc.

I was never quite able to tell whether he was trying to get information 
or to get me to help him compromise my system. After a while, I 
pretended that I had to leave very soon for a meeting and asked for his 
name and phone number. He gave me an answer for both. I do not yet know 
if anyone will answer the phone if I call back the number he provided.

Where should I report this information? I'd like to see some sort of 
follow-up via law enforcement.

Kind regards,
Justis


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