The conman who claimed he was from TalkTalk
This is Money Podcast
This is Money
4.4 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Find out what happens when a scammer pretends to be from broadband provider TalkTalk and attempts to take over an unsuspecting customer's computer.
And what happens when the customer turns out to be journalist Sam Greenhill, who strings along the conman.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, hi sir. My name is David in calling in the phone. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a call regarding your computer. |
| 0:16.0 | Right. |
| 0:18.0 | So the reason today is the call. |
| 0:21.6 | As for last few weeks, we are getting an update that someone from the foreign location |
| 0:29.6 | are trying to hire your computer. |
| 0:31.6 | They're trying to use a computer for the next person. |
| 0:35.6 | As a place they go in your team because all the owner of the computer. |
| 0:40.3 | So if you can touch the computer and sit on the computer and I'll be just going to |
| 0:45.3 | with some simple technical steps and you take your computer from your end, |
| 0:50.3 | it is going to go wrong on a computer now. |
| 0:53.3 | So what are you going to go on a computer now? Okay. What are you going to do to my computer? |
| 0:56.0 | So we'll just start into certain technical steps. |
| 1:03.0 | You have to click the computer, whether the computer is to buy it or not. And not calling from Talk Talk, are you? |
| 1:15.6 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:16.6 | Can you confirm my account number? |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, your account number is |
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