just got a call from a guy "Frank", asking to talk to Ms____ (my name), saying that my Windows 7 operating system has been hacked and he needed to "fix" it...Very noisy in the background....Smelling a rat I told him nobody by that name lived here...Wanted to know my name and if my computer was "on" Told him NO.....Told him I had a bad connection and I would call him.
Gave me a phone# 40-1-866-999-1487 from Salt Lake City....Called back and can't connect with this number...My caller ID shown 1-206-397-1126
This phone number (2063971113) is one of MANY 'spoofed' phone numbers used by 'TRIKON' - whoever or whatever that is. If you surf the web, you can see all the different scams they are running.
Received phone call from this number today. Caller claimed to be from Worldithub and they were receiving problem messages from my computer. wanted to walk me thru fixit after telling me dangers. said they were able to monitor all computers going online. I smelled a rat and put them off, but very noisy background and when I asked for a phone #, caller had to look up 1-866-999-1487. I've worked in call centers and that amount of noise is not normal and any working for a company shouldn't need between 1 and 2 minutes to look it up. Checked caller ID and found 206-397-1113 is trikon. thanx for having this info available.
This same number just called me twice 206-397-1113 is listed as Trikon on my caller id. The guy said he was an executive at Microsoft or Windows, I can't remember. Then just kept repeating that I needed to pay $1,000. He called me by name, "No, Mrs. X you don't understand your computer has been being used and to fix it you need to pay $1,000." I hung up and he called back. GRRRR! Background was very noisy too. Weird!
just got a call from a guy "Frank", asking to talk to Ms____ (my name), saying that my Windows 7 operating system has been hacked and he needed to "fix" it...Very noisy in the background....Smelling a rat I told him nobody by that name lived here...Wanted to know my name and if my computer was "on" Told him NO.....Told him I had a bad connection and I would call him.
Gave me a phone# 40-1-866-999-1487 from Salt Lake City....Called back and can't connect with this number...My caller ID shown 1-206-397-1126