ah, looked odd that kop revived the thread by loling at an almost year old thread. guess you deleted the post that was made
not really a scam call i had, but found a great way to deal with a survey calling place for Home Survey. It was one of those calls that put you on hold for about 4-5 seconds before they answer after you pick up. They asked me to take a survey and i said sure, but only of you tell me why i was put on hold when i picked up the phone, and then was quite insistant that he answer me why i was put on hold... not an unreasonable request and wasn't shouting at him or anything, just merely asking why i was on hold.... they hung up on me. Was laughing to myself about it for ages after cos it's usually our side of the phone that hangs up, not them
i wasn't going to moderate the post as on first glance i saw what emmz did. then reading on i found them selling a service for $100 and up and when looking further the US company wasn't actually registered in the US and the website was in a country where scammers are known to host along with the holding company being in another far east country. with the fact they were selling security for money and the fact that none of their credentials matched up i took the decision to delete and block the post as the scam itself was about selling security where you didn't need it and this website potentially was doing the same thing.
I wouldn't allow people to post possibly unreliable companies details on our forums and as the poster didn't make any other contribution except posting their own website from the same IP mail server (or spoofed) i did consider it likely enough to be spam (and maybe a scam too).
People should never buy any form of security from a company they cannot 100% trace/track to being a fully legitimate company selling a product that actually did what it was supposed to.
The thread was resurrected due to these phone calls starting up again for emmz and then again for me.
omg... don't click links that bots post. it's like clicking links in emails, or replying to emails to tell them to fo. the bot logs where it's been successful and will target the site more, and success is judged on whether or not someone is clicking their advertising link, the more that do it, the more frequent it'll target us. Every time you click those kinds of links it adds the site, and the user details you have on this site to it's mailing list. It'll also scan your previous posts for keywords and info it can use.
Most of the time it can't use this information directly, but it leads to further scams because the bot operator can sell the info it collects on the database to marketing companies, and the cycle of shit begins. So even though your not doing anything apart from clicking on the link, your actually supporting the bot owners and giving them money to help them continue.
it might sound like the usual paranoid ramblings from an internet user, but i've had people trying to sell these types of schemes to the business i work for, so know how they operate to an extent.
Those types of posts are obvious, so just ban/delete them right away
