Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A computer scam has left a retired Marlborough woman angry and shaken. Picton resident Ruth Yates said she felt “damn stupid” after letting a man who said he was from her internet provider Vodafone control her computer. The man called her on Friday afternoon, telling her it had been hacked and that he was from “Spark and Vodafone internet security”. “He said it was being used for illegal purposes,” she said. He told her to press a sequence of keys on the keyboard, giving him remote access to the computer for several minutes. “He brings up all these files of numbers and things, and says ‘see he’s hacked in on this day, at this time’. But he’s the hacker.” Yates became suspicious and hung up after he demanded a $149 fee for “protecting” her computer. The man rang back, annoyed she had turned the computer off. “He became very angry.” His foreign accent dropped and she could tell he was a New Zealander, Yates said. “He spoke perfect English.” When she asked him who he was, he said he was “Spiderman” and he came from the United States. Yates, who suffers from epilepsy, had two minor seizures because of the […]
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