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downeaster
08-15-2012, 02:10 PM
The caller will say he is a Microsoft tech and they have been getting a lot of error notices from your PC. He will tell you he can remove all off the malicious malware and if he doesn't the computer will soon crash. He will then instruct you on how to proceed. What it amounts to is he will gain access to your PC. Once he has gained access in this manner he can, and will, do a lot of damage.

He won't give up easily. Do not let him get access and do not give him any information. HANG UP.

Hope this helps.
golf2140
08-15-2012, 02:23 PM
The caller will say he is a Microsoft tech and they have been getting a lot of error notices from your PC. He will tell you he can remove all off the malicious malware and if he doesn't the computer will soon crash. He will then instruct you on how to proceed. What it amounts to is he will gain access to your PC. Once he has gained access in this manner he can, and will, do a lot of damage.

He won't give up easily. Do not let him get access and do not give him any information. HANG UP.

Hope this helps.

Just received the same call. It was very hard to understand him. Just hang up.
2BNTV
08-15-2012, 03:14 PM
Your both right in this is a scam.

I was a techie for many years and MicroSoft does not call you for any reason!!!!!!!

Hang up on these lowlifes.
Cantwaittoarrive
08-15-2012, 03:24 PM
This is a scam. I couldn't even get Microsoft to call me back when I needed support on software they sold me much less proactively calling to debug a computer. Hang up on the caller!!!
pklein9747
08-15-2012, 05:34 PM
I've gotten this call multiple times in the past few months. I just tell him I'm not interested and hang up.
paulandjean
08-16-2012, 12:22 PM
This has been around for a long time......
getdul981
08-16-2012, 08:20 PM
Tell him you have a Mac and not a PC.
asianthree
08-16-2012, 08:28 PM
:oops: i tell him i am getting my computer and just put the phone down
BritParrothead
08-17-2012, 02:37 AM
The first month after we were conected to the internet, these calls started. :( I told them that there was no computer in this house, you have ben given the wrong information. It took about a week, then the calls stopped for good :thumbup:
This week we have had calls, using my full name, trying to sell insurance, I just tell them that I emigrated 2 months ago!:D
looneycat
08-17-2012, 10:05 AM
The first month after we were conected to the internet, these calls started. :( I told them that there was no computer in this house, you have ben given the wrong information. It took about a week, then the calls stopped for good :thumbup:
This week we have had calls, using my full name, trying to sell insurance, I just tell them that I emigrated 2 months ago!:D

its interesting that the calls started right after you got connected to the internet...it would seem to point to someone who works for your internet provider..perhaps if you tell us whom you use the others, who received these calls as well, could then either corroborate or disprove this thesis.
BritParrothead
08-18-2012, 05:37 AM
its interesting that the calls started right after you got connected to the internet...it would seem to point to someone who works for your internet provider..perhaps if you tell us whom you use the others, who received these calls as well, could then either corroborate or disprove this thesis.

I am in England, so we were with a U.K. provider, Onetel. Now they have been taken over by 'TalkTalk' no complaints. Most of the techie guys are based either in Mumbai or Manila! All very good at what they do, and lucky for me do not need to contact them too often!