I took a call today on my Bluetooth handsfree kit while driving.
The caller said SHE was from an investment company dealing specifically in Crypto
and wanted to offer an exclusive deal for a coin which has not been released yet but
getting in early would realise massive investment gains. I didn’t catch the name of the
company but I think she mentioned “Blue Ocean”
but I’m not 100% on that. The number used to call me was
00 49 231 975204, it’s a German number but she spoke
with near perfect English, but I couldn’t say she was German!
The number seems to be a virtual number...
I asked her how she got my Mobile Phone number and said she wasn’t sure but reckoned
it was from a database. From the outset I knew the call was a scam because of the above
and because of:
1.] Its Saturday
2.] Very obscure to call a random person asking them to invest in Crypto
3.] A bit of a coincidence that I get this call as I am into CryptoI kept her talking for 27 minutes to waste her time and decipher what she wanted me to
do. From the conversation I got the impression she didn’t know I actually owned Bitcoin but
I told her I knew about it, so basically she wanted me to go onto Coinbase and buy Bitcoin
then download ShareIT >
https://shareit.one/pc/ so that she could invest my Bitcoin into her
investment scheme “for me”. I asked if I could do it myself and she declined, I asked what
the name of the “Coin” was and she wouldnt tell me.
The idea behind the scam was/is:
1.] Obviously to relieve me of my newly purchased Bitcoin/Crypto
2.] Take control of my PCSO I’m sharing this with the community so that some poor unfortunate doesn’t get scammed
in their race to get rich quick.
This is a twist on the classic TAKEOVER SCAM where callers claim to be the “HP Technical Support”
and aim to takeover your PC, examples below
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/hpfraud-alert.htmlhttps://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/security/beware-the-new-breed-of-computer-takeover-scams-11364015789542Stay Safe, try an be ½ a step ahead of the scammers