Computer Query

[Pearcy]

Just had a phone call from someone saying that they are receiving error messages from my computer and he showed me how to find them and there is alot of them and he said he would get a certified microsoft technician to remove all the error messages.

Now at this point my spidy senses are tingling, why would they do this for free? I asked him if he had any proof he was from microsoft and he said that microsoft are too busy to deal with it or something so they get all this stuff :\ Guy sounded a bit dodge so i'm not giving him access to my computer, anyone had experience of this?

 

[dajones]

why would your pc send random errors to some random guy? id say avoid him like the plague. did he mention a company?

 

[Magic Johnson]

Ignore, it's not possible, they're just trying to scam you.

 

[cadab]

wasnt this locked this morning?

but yeah ignore the guy

 

[Ronnie R]

Ask him how his nan is.

 

[DrR]

My mate had this phonecall and he has a mac lol

 

[Homer-Simpson]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytip.../don-t-fall-for-phony-phone-tech-support.aspx

^^

Not just people pretending to be MS though, there seems to be a huge rise in this type of social engineering.

 

[Pearcy]

I knew there was something dodgy about the guy buy when you see all the error messages you do think theres something wrong with your computer, i bet they've scammed thousands with this. I told him i knew they were just trying to scam meand that i wasn't interested and he pretended like i hadn't said anything and tried to forward me on the the "technician".