Got a call just as we sat down to dinner. It showed it was from New York. Didn't answer it, but I remember seeing these kind of complaints from another number a few weeks ago. Same AT&T scam.
THESE PEOPLE TOLD ME THEY WERE FROM MY INTERNET PERVIDER AND WONTED ME TO ERASE MY ADDRESS
BAR ...I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS NOT SURE WHO THEY WERE AND I WAS NOT GIVING THEM ACCESS TO MY
SYSTEM AND THEY HUNG UP...DEFANTLY A SCAM LOOK OUT EVERYBODY..............
Good for you that you didn't fall for the scam! The only persons who should be touching your computer is you, your manufacturer, Real Windows support that you have called and/or maybe a real live tech you see face to face!
Received a phone call from this number, and the person told me they were with AT&T, who is my internet provider. The person told me that AT&T had detected a problem with my security, and that I needed to download my system to their Tech Support department so they could repair the system.
I told this person that I had a very good third party security program installed, and that I did not need to connect my computer to their system of any type of maintenance. They persisted, saying that I was not protected from hackers, and AT&T Tech Support could correct the problem.
I told them that if they gave me a phone number that I could call back, and if I called it back and AT&T answered, I would talk to them. Then the guy game me a different phone number than the one he had called from, I guess not knowing that today we know what number just called us.
Note: The number he called from was 719-372-8969 the number he gave me was 1-888-259-0531. If you google either of these numbers, you will get several similar numbers, and some Chinese characters.
Don’t know for sure what is going on here, but I don’t intend to become a part of it.