My wife got a dodgy call today from some woman  (probably from India) claiming to be from Digital Network Solutions, making some claim about our IP address accessing their servers or something. It wasn’t very coherent and she didn’t really appear to know what she was talking about, so the scam is obviously only going to work on people with no clue about I.T. so It didn’t go very far with my wife, and as soon as my wife said “my husband is an expert in this stuff, let me get him”, they hung up

Having googled it I can see others reporting the same, and it seems the end goal is to try an d extort some “computer protection” fees out of you, so they are presumably trying to convince victims their computers are infected or hacked and just trying to collect card details.

While i’m sure readers of my blog would not fall for such a scam, you may have friends or family who might, so you might want to warn them.

Also just to make it clear to everyone, even if your computer was infected with malware and was attacking servers, the only information they would have is your IP address and from this they could find out your ISP and contact them to log a complaint. Your ISP is not allowed to give out your personal information to just anyone, so it would be up to them to contact you directly and let you know your system might be infected or potentially they would just turn off your broadband until it was resolved.