Comments on: Skype “Online Notification” leads to Fake AV

By: Marla

Marla — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:31:46 +0000

I noticed the one time I accepted the call, just by accepting the call my OWN personal anti-virus and spyware program went haywire. That set off bells in my head and ever since i just report abuse and block it.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:26 +0000

I’m getting sick of being harassed by these guys. I report them, I flag them for abuse, and Skype refuses to do anything. I get a call from them at the exact same time every day, even when I am invisible or set as offline. They will contact me even when my laptop is turned off.

Skype, deal with this or you’re going to wind up losing a lot of customers.

The one that keeps contacting me over and over is usa.urgent.sys-notice.b3.

By: jlm1354

jlm1354 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:06:35 +0000

I blocked one of these numbers and checked the report abuse box, but they are still calling me over and over again. The blocking didn’t work and Skype support was not supportive.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:05:30 +0000

More than a year later, I just received much the same: I clicked (on my Mac screen) to answer an incoming Skype call and the thing talked to me, in computer-generated alarmist American tones. It said “a virus has been detected on your computer”, that my system HAS been infected and affected,and that I must “request professional maintenance at http://www.sos.nbc.com“. This last phrase was repeated until I disconnected the call.
I haven’t gone anywhere near the website, of course. The associated Skype user is: “o.notification.am16″ but the incoming Skype call appears in my call record as just “Online Notification”. Grrr.
Grateful to the rest of you for confirming my assumption (always a bit unsettling) that this IS a scam.

By: check in online

check in online — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:01:31 +0000

I don’t remember the site name, I found it on google, it said that I have 160 worms in my C drive, 20 Trojans in My Documents and all, then it tried to install something with fake names, I just navigate away from that.

By: Natalya P

Natalya P — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:52:53 +0000

I’ve got the same message and it looked very fake to me. Thank you for posting this message, which helps us to stay safe.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:02:11 +0000

Thanks for posting this — just got the phishing scam myself and was very happy to be able to Google it and validate it’s scam-iness.

By: Rik Ferguson

Rik Ferguson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:07:39 +0000

Thanks Chaim, reminds me of a favourite Tyla lyric of mine “Nothing’s new, only forgotten”.

By: Chaim Haas

Chaim Haas — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:24 +0000

Skype posted about this type of attack on its Security blog in November of 2007 – see http://share.skype.com/sites/security/2007/11/fake_malware_alert.html).

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