Important: Nurofen Plus & Bogus Microsoft phone calls

[pumkinlover]

I like your style GJC. ;)
Since signing up for the Telephone Preference Service I don't get the opportunity anymore, and I was never as inventive as you :)

[pumkinlover]

[Aden Roller]

Bogus phone calls are a worry to my 91 yr old mother.  :(
My dad has no problems at 96 - he simply wont answer the phone.  ;)

When I'm with them I get given the phone - sometimes they are quite entertaining especially the chap who wanted to help solve their financial worries. I told him yes we were having problems with the 2million investment portfolio and the recently purchased extra housing stock. He was ever-so interested until I explained I was telling porkies too.

Computers? Yep my parents get those calls.  >:(

"Micro what dear? No our microwave is a Panasonic and doesn't have passwords"

[Jeannine]

The calls are swamping BC now there was a tv programme about it XX Jeannine

[lincsyokel2]

These are the people. I waited for the next one and did some research on them.

http://www.ammyy.com/en/contacts.html

the domain registrant is

Registrant Contact:

11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90064
US

Interesting in that they seem to have a legitimate address in the USA.

Ill wait for the next one.


*edit*

ohhhhh sneaky, they have there own nameserver, that means they are a law unto themselves. Normally you get a website closed down by complaining to whoever owns the hoisting server, they have there own. That means the nex  port of call is to try and work out who is providing them with a pipe to the net, and also complain to the FBI.

[Aden Roller]

That's a good bit of detective work  ;)

[Jeannine]

The programme in Canada said they were from India and the broadcasters actually talked to the company who were supposed to be selling  virus protection, in the small print it said they had no connection with Microsoft although they used it in the phonecalls according to the maby Canadians that reported it. They claimed to remove viruses and did not,, they claimed it was an oversight.
Meanwhile folks had given all kinds of info to them, and credit card companies had issued an instruction that even thoiugh numbers were changed they would be checking on purchases made by the card holders fro 6 years.

Could there then be two companies doing the same thing?

XX Jeannine

[BarriedaleNick]

The domain registrant is actually obscured by http://www.whoisguard.com/ and the address given is just that of the holding company.
Many people use such a service to hide hide their addresses legitimately but these people are just hiding.

http://whois.domaintools.com/ammyy.com

DNS for ammyy is provided by http://www.namecheap.com on dns1.registrar-servers.com....

[lincsyokel2]

The domain registrant is actually obscured by http://www.whoisguard.com/ and the address given is just that of the holding company.
Many people use such a service to hide hide their addresses legitimately but these people are just hiding.

http://whois.domaintools.com/ammyy.com

DNS for ammyy is provided by http://www.namecheap.com on dns1.registrar-servers.com....

didnt realise tha was Whoisguards address, dohh!