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!
Yup. Thick Indian accent. Totally full of [***]. He told me he was calling from windows because of an error or whatever. I told him I don't have a computer. He says "WHY MA'AM WHY???" and I hung up.
LISTEN UP EVERYONE! THIS IS A TOTAL SCAM!!! i WAS CALLED FROM THIS NUMBER AND I DONOT HAVE A COMPUTER. DO NOT TALK OR ANSWER THESE CALLS. PLEASE REPORT THEM TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TALKING TO THEM!!!!!
The caller has thick accent. Called my parents who in turn gave them my number to discuss it with me. They are giving people a website that will hijack your PC. I believe they are preying upon 50+ year olds and I believe they are getting phone numbers through social engineering (facebook).
These people claimed to be from Windows, but they are not Microsoft. Windows is a brand and not a company. I did manage to chuckle a bit when I listened to him, even playing along acting all so scared and such. Then after about 10 minutes I asked him if Ubuntu Linux was windows? He hesitated and I told him I use Linux, he started to say something and I told him to stop scamming folks.
Got a call from a woman with an Indian accent. Told me she was from Microsoft security and she wanted to let me know my computer was infected. She asked if I was in front of the computer and when I said no she wanted me to to go my computer. I told her not now and hung up.
Got home at 12:05 am; ans mach was blinking -- listened to it -- sounded like someone humming. I think I had this number call me before about my computer being infected -- told them at that time to give me a telephone number that I could call them back; they immediately hung up. Feel badly for those who fall for this.