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!
Caller with a strong middle eastern accent and very poor english stated that he was calling from the computer maintenance center. He said my computer was infected with a virus that was calling the computer maintenance center phone number. He said I would need to give him remote access to my computer so he could remove the virus. I told him no and hung up on him. Prior to this there were eight hang up calls from this number over the past two weeks.
I have been getting this "OVERSEAS" thing for several years now, no one talks just silence then cut off. I get it several times a month. So what I have done is put a fax machine on the line and when caller id comes up with "Overseas" we do not answer. Just let the fax take it. Seems to slow them down for a while but eventually happens again. I must say that I up to now never thought to type the phone number into the net and I must admit how wide spread these people are doing this and how many people are affected by it.
DO NOT DO THIS THIS IS A SCAM. tHIS NUMBER CALLED ME A LEAST FOUR TIMES THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT I HUNG UP TWICE AND HE CALLED ME BACK ASKED WHY I HUNG UP ON HIM AND I SAID I DID NOT CALL YOU ABOUT MY WINDOWS ON MY COMPUTER GOING BAD CAUSE I HAVE A DEAL WITH MY PHONE COMPANY SO I HAD CHECKED WITH THEM AND FOUND OUT THAT THEIR WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY WINDOWS THEN I CALLED MY PHONE COMPANY AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS A SCAM SO PLEASE DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH HACKING ALL YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE DON'T GIVE HIM ANY THING HANG UP AND CALL YOUR PHONE COMPANY AND HELP PUT HIM DOWN FOR SCAMMING NOT RIGHT. SHE TOLD ME TO GO ON HERE AND TELL YOU EVERYTHING AND SO I AM. THIS PERSON IS GOT TO BE STOPPED. HE TOLD ME HE WAS FOR MY WINDOWS BUT IT WAS NOT TRUE.