* Michael Fowler <michael@shoebox.net> [120406 15:54]:
> > Funny story: I keep getting phone calls from a Windows tech-support
> > guy in India. Microsoft apparently has a wrong number and thinks I
> > have some unresolved Windows problem.
>
> It's a scam. I humored one once and he had me start poking around for
> some random Windows thing that could be confusing enough to be construed
> as exhibiting Bad Symptoms. Their ultimate goal is to have you buy and
> install malware.
>
> Microsoft has put out alerts, and I believe Slashdot covered it some
> time back.
I received something similar. Three phone calls, asking for me,
then my wife, then my brother by name. The caller claimed that we
were running M$ servers that were doing naughty things in
cyberspace.
When I told the caller that we didn't use any M$ boxes
here and didn't do any serving from my static IP and then
wondered outload if this wasn't a scam, the caller said :
"this is no f***ing scam". Well, so much for a case number and a
site to verify it! And I couldn't even imagine a Microsoft Tech
using that kind of language.
cheers
-- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Fri Apr 6 16:07:55 2012
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