I got a call tonight on my cell phone. The man on the phone had such a thick accent, I had to ask him several times to repeat why he was calling (and I'm used to working with people for whom English is not their primary language). He was very persistent, and I kept wondering why on earth would someone call me about a potential threat to my computer. The man then said that if I got on my computer, he would walk me through some steps to help me keep my computer safe. I told him he should not be calling me, and I told him to remove my phone number from his records. Aie aie aie!
Recv same call 2 wk ago. Scam from AMMYY co. show u in your computer the error message list you have. Make you think something wrong. Immed direct you to their website and tell you to start putting in your name, credit card info and get mad when you hestitate. He went so far as to tell us, "well you have a credit card that ends in (and gave us the last 4 numbers of an old credit card we had cancelled). Knew right then something was wrong. Told him I would have to check this out and call him back and he hung up on me. Typed in AMMYY scam in computer, and it came up with lots of people and complaints, they could not get money back, and someone had control of their computer.
Called at 9:15 at night. The guy told me he was with National Computer company in California. I said first of all I don't believe you because the caller id said no name found and the area code is from new york. He told me my windows program has a virus. I kept asking him what computer he was calling about but he would not answer. He did have my name and address. I told him I would call him back he gave me a number that starts with 505.