Today I got call from person, that my computer was emitting bad signals and needed to be fixed right away, I asked him give me his number,he mentioned to me that he calling from Toronto and gave 1-305-280-3310 and told that it toll free number.It not Toronto number and it a toll free number. He then hangup the phone.
I just received the same call stating that there was an error on my computer and that they were receiving bad signals. The lady told me that i should go on my computer to check the IP area and that she would give me step by step instructions. I told her to give me the number she was calling from and that before anything i had to speak with my husband. The number is the same as your and she also stated that it is a toll free #. Not sure what to do or who to contact about this. To me this seems a bit scary for someone to call me stating they are getting information from my computer.
I received a call telling that my computer has a virus and it will crush in the next few days. When i asked the person on the phone how he got my number he told the domaine server of the compagny gave it to him. I asked him for the compagny name he said 24 by 7 pchelp.com and his name was peter roy he sounded like he had an indian accent.
THIS IS A SCAM. Read about the your-PC-is-infected scam here http://news.softpedia.com/news/Cold-Call-Tech ... on-150170.shtml They lie about your PC sending out malware, error messages, etc., and say your PC is about to crash to frighten you into giving them remote control of your PC to fix the nonexistent problem (don't let them!). If they ask you to open the systems tab in eventvwr.msc to see all the errors, these harmless errors are *normal* for any Windows PC (mine has several and it runs just fine). Don't let them take control of your PC because they can download *real* malware, possibly a malware suite, that can spam, steal bank logins and personal info, etc. If they've remoted into your PC, the safest fix is to re-format your drive and re-install your OS assuming you have clean backups of your data. You can try scanning with various antivirus software but scanning may not find all the malware. If you don't know how, get help from friends or pay a local shop to do it. THIS IS A SCAM.
This has just happened to my daughter and she let them go into our computer. What can we do? They download some hardware onto our computer how do we get it off?