Thanks for the post. It is to the letter of what happened to my elderly parents. They gave no credit card or banking info but completely lost everything on their computer, drivers and all. It was taken over by remote desktop and they lost everything. I live out of town and told them to immediately go to my sister's house next door and log in to all their accounts and change their passwords. They called their bank to place an alert as well as ebay and paypal. Just hope they acted soon enough. Scary!
Just got a call 5 mins ago from these guys. He sounded suspicious right from the start saying he was from Microsoft and than saying I had a dangerous virus, so I just hung up obvious that it was a scam.
Received the call at 6:20 p.m. 21 Jan 2013. Answering machine picked up and after a few seconds the person on the other end said "Hello?" twice then hung up. Caller ID says Name Not Found.
Repeatedly receiving unwanted calls from this number, always a man with an Indian accent who wants to talk to me about "Microsoft Windows Program". This happened a couple of months ago and I'd told the caller that we are on the "Do Not Call" list and was promptly hung up on. ****SCAM**** Hang up and report!!!
Same story 09:30 AM. The FTC will not take any action without a "significant" number of complaints. They will not say what makes a "significant" number of complaints. I suggest you do the following:
(1) file a complaint at
https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx?panel=2
(2) email or snailmail you congress-persons (Representatives and Senators) about the FTC's failure to enforce the Do-Not-Call list. Mention Donald S. Clark, Secretary of the Commission. This is the guy whose name appears on correspondence claiming they don't have enough complaints. (If you have a Republican, forget this step, their not interested in our problems or interested in accomplishing anything useful).
(3) call the FTC, Donald S. Clark, Secretary of the Commission at 1-202-326-2514.