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02-13-2015, 05:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mgcsooner
If you cooperate with them, they will act as though they are fixing something wrong with your computer, and place a nasty virus or trojan in it that might do among other things, copy your keystrokes, capturing account no.s and passwords. Often they act as though they are calling from the "Microsoft operations center" or something to that effect.
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This is the type of call my daughter experienced last night in CA. The heavily foreign accented guy "wanted to help her stop someone in Australia from hacking into her PC". It was late. The call woke her up. He addressed her by name. When she hung up he called back so she unplugged her phone.
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