Android phones malware

[DrNomis_44]

There is a current scam ( I had to deal with it last year) where Indian/Pakistani customer service centres get contracts with ISP's and Hosts then use their access to install malware on your site or device, then inform you that you have to buy a tool to remove it, however the links from your ISP or host don't work, you call Support and they "help" you out by giving you a direct link. I refused to pay them and my IT guy removed the malware manually, they kept saying it wasn't done and they wouldn't reinstate my site until we used their "tool". Eventually when he said he was going to report them to the FBI (I'm hosted in the USA) they suddenly decided that the site was clean. My hosting company would have no idea this is going on as the only ways you can contact them is via their "Help" centre which is actually the problem!

That's interesting, I keep getting phone calls from some company apparently based in India (judging by the accents of the people ringing me up), they tell me that they have a parcel they need to deliver to me which contains a Laptop, Mobile Phone, or an mp3 player, and ask me to give them my address, I keep telling them I'm not interested in the parcel cause I already have one of each of those devices, and I ask them to please do not ring me again, last time that happened I got about three of those calls in a row, I couldn't note down their number as it came up as "Private Number" on my phone, next time I get a call from them I'll say that I'll be reporting them to the FBI and the Australian Telecommunications Ombudsman if they ring me up again, and see how they react to that.

Makes me wonder why these people, who do this, don't use their brains and comply with my requests to stop calling me, some of them sound like they are a bit inept at understanding that I'm not interested in the parcel whatsoever.