Received a call today - when I picked it up, say 'hello', loud electronic sound and the call is dropped.
BTW heard of a scam used in France - when you dial back on a number you don't recognize it's a $10/per/minute call, and they try to keep you on. So, don't dial this 360 -number. Let them dial you, then hang up when you work it out.
june 11th
asometime between 5 and 6pm
male - indian accent
call recieved and no sooner did they open thioer mouths i knew it was another scam...
pretty much the sazme wereb calling from windows to tell yyou7 you have been hacked and i want to help you fix it.... snagged the number they wanted to know if i had the time to talkm i said i gyuess so aqnd then CLICK pone died
oh great these dicks are so thick why would anyone wanna hanhd someone unknown cvsontroll over the familys computer [***] we dont need this do we? the +1 is the international area code for america and canada I am trying to find its origins so i can work on getting this operation exposed and or shut down its driving me nuts and someone should do something about it so i guess i am the start
Get me to go to event viewer to see all the errors and warnings which I know is part of the Windows reporting hiccups but they suggest its malicious viruses - even though I have good antiviral software.
They try really hard to get me to download a file which I won;t - they give up.
They are really trying to help!!!!!!
I'm concerned that gullible people (Including senior citizens) could be sucked into whatever they are doing.
THIS IS A SCAM. Read about the your-PC-is-infected-corrupted 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.