[funsec] "Warning over anti-virus cold-calls to UK internet users" (BBC)

[Paul Vixie]

jacking in from the anything-we-can-do-they-can-do-better department...

	15 November 2010 Last updated at 07:56 ET
	"Warning over anti-virus cold-calls to UK internet users"

	Internet users are being warned about cold-callers who offer to
	fix viruses but then install software to steal personal
	information.

	Campaign group Get Safe Online said a quarter of people it had
	questioned had received such calls, many suspected to have been
	from organised crime gangs.

	Some gangs, employing up to 400 people, are known to set up
	their own call centres to target people en masse.

	Internet users are also urged to be wary of pop-ups offering
	virus checks.

	...

more at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11754487>.