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by alexmuller 5264 days ago
From the PDF transcript, page nine:

Caller: No, it’s absolutely free, free of charge. Ok, there’s a small fee for hosting of Ksh. 200 per month.

This seems like an incredibly simple scam, and it looks like blhack's nailed it.

There is nothing connecting this to Google apart from that one IP address. I could phone up half a dozen companies and claim to be from Google, too. Hell, I get phone calls from "Windows Security Centre" every few weeks telling me to do something to my non-existant XP install.