Just received a call from this same 1-563-789-2587. He said his name was John and he was calling from PC wizard and needed my user ID for my computer to clean up a virus that I from a website I just visited.
I told me that I was at work and I googled his number and read all the reviews that are posted about him and his SCAM! He immediately hung the phone up!
Thank's for your help J
Got a call from this number today. The person said his name was David and he sounded Pakistani. Said he knows that I am sole user of the computer at my house (incorrect info) and that he represents the company that manages the network information for my household (What????). Asked him multiple times which company he represented he just kept beating around the bush. He wanted to get the user ID for my computer to get 'started' with important network diagnostic. Told him the user id was 'mymmscksa' and the password was 'goatsd1ck'. :-) He then read it back to me, at which point i laughed and hung up.
Call from number. Pakistani sounding women. Asking about my computer and users of it. Jest of it was to gain access to check for downloaded malware. Told her I took care of all that myself. She hung up.
Recieve a phone call claiming this company was calling to help people determine if their computers were at risk (I'm sure he was lying about working for PC Wizard but this is a valid company) and asking you to use the run box in Windows to run eventvwr and then run www.ammyy.com
. DO NOT DO IT!!!! ammyy is a remote desktop software program. Don't know what this gentleman with the Indian accent was wanting to do on my computer but he definitely wanted to connect me to his technicians! I said absolutely not, never call here again and I will pass this warning on to everyone I know!! Be careful. You do not want his technicians to be able to remotely access your computer!!!! He was very polite and helpful but this was not a service I had sought out. I did not do the things he asked but I played along and googled all the instructions he was giving me.
I did not give this guy, Pakistani-sounding individual, a chance to waste my time any more than he did. Scam all the way. Wanted to help me fix my computer as it seems that someone at our household downloaded something off the internet putting the computer at risk. Right.... Pretty flagrant attempt.
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.