Sep 30, 2019
Hey, I had some fun with Jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Jack Heath on New Hampshire today. His show is carried throughout the state of New Hampshire on a number of different stations and of course in parts of Mass, Maine, and Vermont. You know, we got kind of a number of small states up here in the northeast. I talked about two big scams that are going on right now. So here we go with Jack Heath.
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Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had fun with
jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Mr.
Jack Heath. On New Hampshire today. It's carried throughout the
state of New Hampshire bunch of different stations as heard. And of
course in parts of mass and Maine and Vermont. You know, we got
kind of small states up here in the northeast. And I talked about
two big scams that are going on right now.
Jack Heath 0:29
But joining us down the auto fair listener lines on this Monday
morning, 30 days into September, thank you for starting it with us.
We appreciate it very, very much. We know you have some choices.
And thank you for flying with us. Craig Peters on our tech talk guy
and Craig. Veterans scams or something I always try and pay
attention to our friends at AARP has talked about this, how
veterans are sometimes targeted. But sometimes some fake sites can
sort of lower veterans in telling us about the great public service
here you have and what you've discovered.
Craig Peterson 0:56
Absolutely, jack, good morning, we've got vision another about a
topic you talk a lot about, and that has to do with elderly
victims. But in this case, there is a group out there. But this is
a group that backs me and my business. I've called Cisco Telos,
they found a website that there tends to be an organization called
higher military heroes. What happens when you go to the site is it
offers a download of program that it says that veterans can use to
get job opportunities, and they've done a good job on this program
on the site, the site is down. Now it is not up online. But it does
offer software for all of your major versions of Windows. And
unfortunately, this is another example of software that is malware
that is not detected by most antivirus packages. In fact, they
tested it against 69 different pieces of antivirus software, only
three of them caught it. And jack this software that supposed to be
helping our veterans actually installed to malware infections, one
that gathers information about the veteran and their computer and
another that executes commands remotely. They're given to the
computer by the hackers. It's a shame to see stuff like this. And
it's all part of what the hackers the bad guys are trying to do now
to kind of Spearfish, in this case, our veterans.
Jack Heath 2:24
Yeah. And, you know, it's, uh, there's so much of this, Craig,
there's so much of it. And it's just so hard to know how you really
get to keep your guard up, don't you?
Craig Peterson 2:35
Oh, you do and that kind of leads us into our next one, which is an
arrest of it just happened. And this is a massive it, you know,
information technology and computer support fraud. And my dad fell
for this now. My dad is no slouch when it comes to technology. And
this You certainly wasn't. Now he's in his 80s. But he was the guy
that the family members went to to get help with their computers to
reinstall replace drives, download drivers, he new computers, and
he fell for a scam that, again, he was trying to get tech support.
He did a search on Google, he found a company that supports
windows, he called them up. And they started installing almost
right away. One of these pieces of nasty were now in this case with
the arrest. Apparently, these bad guys father defrauded more than
7500 victims. And they convinced that these poor people elderly and
almost all of the cases that their computers needed 16 they had a
pop up that would come up on the computers as a fake warning
installed, drive by on a website. That's all that they had to do
these poor people. And this indictment that was released on
Wednesday said a phone number would be provided the victim would
call it an order to get rid of this infection that was on their
computers. And you know what, unfortunately, these guys these two
people are legends have made $10 million from these thousands of
elderly victims. Yeah. And it can happen to people that should know
better. Right?
Jack Heath 4:17
And you know, it doesn't take much because they don't need that
many to fall victim in, you know, even if like, you know, the less
than 5% that it's worth it to them as the crooks you know, Craig,
while you were talking about that elderly one Craig Peters on Tech
Talk Craig Peterson with an ON calm if you want to contact and
learn more what Craig does, Craig you know, the Have you heard this
the other day, but good police work led to at least cracking into
that that IRS scam, if you heard about that one, when someone leave
you a voice message, usually a female voice it if you didn't
contact the IRS back and some field agent within you know a certain
amount of time they would take criminal action and on the way to
arrest you and call back with your attorney and you basically had
this this should be the tip you had but you know you can kind of
get out of it with a 20 $500 gift card or something else. I we
obviously the IRS doesn't work that way. So somehow gift cards were
involved in the scam and police are tracking where they were using
in the area of Los Angeles in this neighborhood that the bad people
were you know, going to one particular target to cash it in the
gift cards. And they were able to kind of find out where the call
center was and busted this 25 year old woman they had one at over a
million dollars worth of basically computer call equipment that
they were doing this robo call operation out of pretty funny, not
funny real I did.
Craig Peterson 5:37
And this happened to me Jack that I was on in fact after the trade
show. And my phone rang and I answered the phone call. And it was a
lady that had no discernible accent. It was definitely an American
that I was talking to saying that she was calling from the IRS and
that there has been a problem with my tax Three's Company fun. And
I kind of thought what what what's going on here? and you have
all
Jack Heath 6:07
And you of all people right Mr. Like on guard and you get a call
like that. Now imagine being living alone not being as up to date
and how nerve-wracking that would be. Now, of course, folks out
there, the IRS doesn't call you they don't call. But you don't get
the call. You think it's real,
Craig Peterson 6:24
But you see, I knew I knew better. Right? And so I hung up and I
just thought oh my gosh, what is really the IRS? What if there's
really a problem? You know, am I really gonna get in trouble. And I
knew better jack.
Jack Heath 6:40
Yeah, they're good.
Jason McIssac 6:42
What I tried to do is when I figured out it's a scam, I try to stay
on the phone with them as long as possible, almost fun and mess
with them. Yeah, because I figure if I'm taking up their time,
that's less time they have to actually scam somebody, right?
Craig Peterson 6:53
And you know what else, you do is you basically turn it around and
start asking them questions. So, if it's live - you can say,
Oh, yeah, you say how many years you've been working with the IRS?
And they might say they'll stick to their script. they'll stick to
their script. And then you'll say, who's your field? Director, your
supervisor, what Ira CY at what IRS office? You out of? Right? You
ask him enough questions after a while you know you're here.
Jack Heath 7:22
Oh, Justin wouldn't love this.
Craig Peterson 6:53
I don't know if you guys saw this. But there was a captain and
Stevens and she's with the apex Police Department down in North
Carolina. And it was about a month ago she took a call from a man
who identified himself as officer john black. And they were coming
by to arrest Captain Stevens in about a 20 minutes if she didn't
send the money. And Justin she does exactly what you were talking
about. She messes with scammers she kept them on the phone. And
there she is videotaping this whole thing. And she's in full
uniform, you know her captain's uniform on and you know, you could
go either way on this, but I like your approach. Justin, don't know
my gut was turning over and I'm I didn't you know, she called back
like three or four times. I just kept hanging up on her.
Jack Heath 8:10
But maybe that's the way to handle it. Yeah, just just just busting
my chops. All right. Thank you, Craig Peterson, thank you very much
on this Monday morning when we come back. General Motors.
Craig Peterson 8:19
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