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!
Got a call from this guy with an Indian or maybe a fake Indian accent. Said that there were error message reported to "windows" and wanted to walk me through keyboard instructions to clear up the problem. I told him to send me an email of what to do because his accent was too strong. He said he couldn't do that and hung up. He had my name.
I keep receiving a call from this number and it is an Indian gentlemen who asks me to turn on my computer because there is a problem and he can fix it. He never says a company name and he calls daily. I have heard it is a scam. I am reporting it and I am wondering how to block his calls.
The next time he calls tell him that your computer IS turned on. But it's busy right now tracking his IP so you can send him a friendly little virus that will make his life much more interesting. I'm sure he'll thank you..right before he goes off on one of those famous Indian temper tantrums. They're always fun to listen to.
This number called on March 15. It was a very bad connection. The caller kept asking for some other company and then said that they had received my number attached to that company name from the internet and they could fix that for us. I told him I would look into it and take care of it myself and hung up. Sounded like a scam, not surprised now.