I got a strange phone call this morning at 07:00 they said they were windows but when I checked my number THAT SENMUKTA word was all that appeared?

At 07:00 this morning, I got a strange call from what they said was Windows. They wanted me to go start my computer and of course I refused. When I checked my identity the only word he was SENMUKTA. What was that some kind of scam or what. Please check this and let me know. Hope you can take care of that. I changed my password on some of my accounts.  Thank you for your help.

On Monday, October 8, 2012 12:41:19 + 0000, ThomasFren wrote:

At 07:00 this morning, I got a strange call from what they said was Windows. They wanted me to go start my computer and of course I refused. When I checked my identity the only word he was SENMUKTA. What was that some kind of scam or what. Please check this and let me know. Hope you can take care of that. I changed my password on some of my accounts.  Thank you for your help.

It's a scam and with various names and phone numbers, is
very frequent lately. See
http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/08/virus-scams-social-engineering-victims.html

In addition to their money get on your part to do anything of any value,
If you leave them in your computer, which knows what losses they did are
where confidential information they stole.

So if you have done so, I highly recommend that you do both of the following
immediately:

1 do a clean reinstall of Windows.
2. change all of your passwords, especially banks or other
financial sites.

However if you refused to let them in your computer, you're safe
and there is no need to do the foregoing. You can't even
change the password that you did.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Tags: Windows

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