got a call from the same lady , with same accent . says her name is alice . she pretty much told me the same deal she told you . i am expecting a call back from her around 6 today i will be wary of her instructions . by the looks of it this is obviously a scam . she gave me an address and it turned out to be some industrial area in vancouver!!!! watch out people !!
This number is used as a call back for Microsoft. WATCH OUT! It's a scam. They are trying to tell you that you have a virus on your windows computer and to follow their instructions to remove it. They are actually putting on software for identity theft and banking passwords.
That apparently Microsoft guy also called me this afternoon advising me that Microsoft did receive error messages from my computer. I have to admit though – that guy was quite skilled and made me believe for a few minutes that there is really something fishy with my computer the way he asked me to check my event-viewer where these error messages are listed.
I'm reasonably knowledgeable - but since I’ve never checked that area of my computer – this was not so obvious for me.
After checking with our IT department it became very clear that the error messages listed in the event-viewer section of the automatic stored internet / IP address access areas are nothing to be concerned off
Since he actually left me a call back number because I was suspicious since I never had such a call before - so I googled that number and found the msg above posted.
Same thing with me, only he convinced me to go so far as to begin a Goto Assist meeting with a "microsoft engineer." The first thing he did was open paypal and tried to get my log in. I closed everything down imediately and reported it to the police.
Matt we haven,t did any thing wrong with your computer,we just tried to save your computer from the unwanted suff which came over the internet,we are not running any kind of scam here.