Further investigations into the virus phone scam affecting users in the UK, shows calls coming from 0208 144 5602. This number leads to Online PC Masters:
PC Masters have been mentioned numerous times by people receiving calls about the blue bird virus.
Now this is where the new Google image search becomes really useful. If you’ve not seen this yet, Google images now allows you to search for similar image.
Simply drag an image in from your desktop – or even direct from another website and Google will give you results similar to the image.
Interestingly, the picture of “Dave from Harrow” giving a testimonial on the front page is a stock photo from istock. Somehow I doubt he’s from Harrow?
Searching for the logo also leads to asianstuff.co.uk which has an identical website with the same telephone number.
Both these sites are registered to an address in Luton, which from Google maps doesn’t show any sign of them:
So if you receive a call from 0208 144 5602 claiming to be either from Microsoft or PC Masters, hang up!
I just had a ‘Larry White’ from On-Line PC Masters call me to advise that my computer had the Bluebird virus.
After much relunctance he told me he was located in Luton on phone number 0203 318 0644 and wanted to access my computer via website http://www.ammyy.com, I very politely told him to go away!!
I have just had call and let them run program from ammyy as I had just got computer back from PC world…have I screwed up as really worried.
Hi Tracy,
I’d go into control panel, add remove programs and then remove ammyy. Otherwise they’ll have remote access to your system.
Useful comments , I was fascinated by the specifics ! Does anyone know if my assistant can grab a template IRS 1099-PATR version to type on ?
Hi Lavelle . my business partner got ahold of a sample a form example at this site http://goo.gl/7YW89H