My wife got the call, "twice" and they indicated it was a "Windows security issue" and said it was "URGENT" and she would "lose everything!"...the guy went my "Eric" but I am guessing his name was Mohammed, and he was not from MSFT. I insisted he tell me the name of the company he was with, and after I refused to believe "Windows tech support" he told me the name of the company was "Technical Support" I asked him again and when he confirmed, I laughed out loud at his dumb a** and asked him to send me an email indicating his company & the purpose of his call (can you believe I am still waiting?!). What a fckn' joke, they are the worst I have ever seen, DO NOT RESPOND to ANY of their requests for data...this is an international "tie line" to India/Pakistan/Asia via Seattle....no connection to MSFT, USA or your operating system...complete BS!
Middle eastern accent has called almost everyday this week. I hung up after a sentence or two the first few times. Today he was extremely insistent that it was urgent to take care of my computer problem. The federal government would shut down my computer because it was infecting thousands of other computers. I got his name and number. Sam Nicholson in Delaware. He said he worked for Pegasus Data Software in Delaware.
They had been contracted by Microsoft to take care of these hacking issues. It made me extremely nervous, but I hung up again. Thank goodness! Thank you for confirming that I did the right thing.
A senior technician named "Richard Williams" that had a south east Asia accent contacted parents and requested that they do some stuff on their computer that involved opening command prompt and getting the CLSID for the zfsendtotarget extension by typing the assoc command (it's a harmless command).
They were attempting to convince them that they had a problem with their computer and were giving them directions to login to a website.
My dad had already physically unplugged the cat5 cable from the wall before even booting up the computer so nothing happened. :) He's a smart guy, my dad. :)
I just got the same call. Jordan Dennis was his name & said he was from Windows Technical Support. Had foreign accent but avoided telling me what state he was calling from. Wanted me to go to my keyboard and click on the windows flag + R and then he would show me how my computer was being hacked. I know that I have had e-mail problems by things being sent under my e-mail address so I changed my password. I now believe these jokers were hijacking my e-mail and want to damage my computer. Told him that I was leery of this call would have to check it out before I did anything. I definitely will not call him back at the given # 206-424-8913. By the way, his phone call came from ph # 646-457-4289. I may be old but I am not totally stupid.
My wife got the call, "twice" and they indicated it was a "Windows security issue" and said it was "URGENT" and she would "lose everything!"...the guy went my "Eric" but I am guessing his name was Mohammed, and he was not from MSFT. I insisted he tell me the name of the company he was with, and after I refused to believe "Windows tech support" he told me the name of the company was "Technical Support" I asked him again and when he confirmed, I laughed out loud at his dumb a** and asked him to send me an email indicating his company & the purpose of his call (can you believe I am still waiting?!). What a fckn' joke, they are the worst I have ever seen, DO NOT RESPOND to ANY of their requests for data...this is an international "tie line" to India/Pakistan/Asia via Seattle....no connection to MSFT, USA or your operating system...complete BS!