Lol scam!

Django x2

Django x2

Django x2

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Just had a client ring me up to tell me this just happened to them:

I had a telephone call from a lady with an Indian accent. I could not understand her very well but gathered that she was with Microsoft allegedly security. She said they had found my computer was running slow and could have a virus. she told me to switch on and she would put it right. I said I did not deal with security issues over the phone. I tried to check the number but it was not available so I ran a full scan on my computer and it found nothing wrong.
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Rofls
 
Definitely legit, using Microsoft Psychic Services Enterprise Edition they know your phone number. Just give 'em your IP address and password, and your done :D
 
My boss got the same thing about a month ago, a chap claiming to be from Microsoft. "we can see your running windows on your computer and its running slow, if you go to this URL and download this tool we can sort it out for you" He stumpted them when he asked them which computer he was talking about, guy kept saying "the one running windows" , my boss kept saying yes there are 2 laptops and a desktop on, which one!

he gave up in the end.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Are you bored at work today? :p

Sounds like a rather odd scam to me, I'm certain it's not legit in that Microsoft security are never likely to be phoning up individual customers but there must be rather more to it than simply asking them to switch on their computers.
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It'll either end up with them attempting to make a remote desktop connection and dropping off malware etc or requesting payment before they 'clean' it.
 
Sounds like "Support On Click". They cold call people, tell them to either delete something (or even something retarded like open the System32 folder), then tell them that what they are seeing indicates a virus and they can fix it remotely. Cha-ching.
 
Had somebody fall to this a few months back, cost them around a hundred quid if I recall correctly, one born every minute.
 
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