Indian reps who claims to receive news some problems with my Win 7 OS

I received a phone call with no name or telephone number of an IndianRepresentative that claims to be from Microsoft that they receive information frfrom my PC there is a problem, scam or a virus and would like to consider the issue and correct it.

I have I've received these before phone calls and control taeks PC tech, installs a fake program that shows all errors that the system isgenerating and claims to offer a fix for the problem of the costs to install the hotfix.

Saturday, October 27, 2012 17:41:59 + 0000, Yarrumnodrog wrote:

I received a phone call with no name or telephone number of an IndianRepresentative that claims to be from Microsoft that they receive information frfrom my PC there is a problem, scam or a virus and would like to consider the issue and correct it.

I have I've received these before phone calls and control taeks PC tech, installs a fake program that shows all errors that the system isgenerating and claims to offer a fix for the problem of the costs to install the hotfix.

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.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

Tags: Windows

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