A guy with a heavy indian accent called from 1111 and said he was from the international computer management organization and that they had info that my computer had been infected with a virus and that I needed to turn it on and follow his instruction immediately. He was almost frantic and very insistent. I kept asking where he was from and he kept saying, "i already told you maam". He said my microsoft needed to be de bugged and he would help me, I told him I didn't have microsoft and he asked me if I had a mac. I said "you tell me, you're the one who knows my computer has a bug". He hung up.
did not answer; message: odd busy signal that never stopped as most of them do after just a few seconds when other telemarketers hang up without leaving a message. I tried to block it on my timewarner voice zone and TWC came back with "invalid number" --
A guy, claiming to work with Microsoft, said my computer was "infected with a virus" and that he needed to walk-me through on how to remove it from my computer. Hmm...Luckily, I am somewhat familiar with how a computer operates and the steps necessary to remove a virus or to scan for one, and knew what he was asking me to do, had nothing to do with removing one. **Beware** of this type of call! It wreaks of SCAM!
Caller identified himself with a name that I could not make out.
Indicated he was from Microsoft and wanted to inform me my
computer was infected. Asked for clarification and he said he
was from Microsoft. He said he could show me my PC was
sending out viruses. I asked him to give me something
to identify it and he insisted he could show me reports on this and
help get rid of it. I told him to give me firm data and he just became
agitated, insisting that he only wanted to help me. He said the
Microsoft IT dept. told him that this was so. I asked him who he
worked for again and he said Microsoft Windows. By this time I
was starting to chuckle a bit and he was getting more insistent.
I told him thank you and hung up. If this was legit, he certainly did
not do a thing to make it seem so.
So yes, beware, it is likely a scam until proven otherwise.