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• HACK/POTENTIAL SCAM

  I GOT ALSO A UNSOLICITED OF SOME 'PRIVATE' CALL, SAYING HE CALLED DELL AND I WANTED TO WALK ME THROUGH THE PROCESS TO FIX MY LAPTOP CAN ENCOUNTER ERRORS.  POTENTIAL SCAM/HACK OF THOUGHT I HAVE REQUEST A NUMBER I COULD CALL BACK ON.  HE GAVE ME 1-800-425-2067 AND SAID: IF I RECALLED I WOULD PROBABLY BE ON HOLD FOR 1-2 HOURS.  I SAID I WOULD CALL BACK.  I CONTACTED TECHNICAL SUPPORT DELL WHO HAVE SAID THAT THEY DO NOT SEEK IT.  I CALLED THE 1-800 AND GOT A RECORDING OFFERING A FREE CRUISE.  ONCE I HAVE INDICATED THAT I WAS LESS THAN 21 YEARS (WHICH I'M NOT), I WAS DISCONNECTED.  BEWARE!

  Hi drauth,

  Thank you for that bring to our attention.

  Data protection is a top priority for Dell. Unfortunately, technology phone scams have become prevalent in all of our industry.

  We would love for you to take a moment to help us stop cybercriminals by pointing out the details on your interaction. Please fill out this form, because this will allow us to continue the investigation. Please read also this Wiki which includes more useful data.

  Note that Dell would not say it no unsolicited. The only time where we would contact you would via the DellConnect software or the Dell Support Center software. But only after you have agreed to this and only in the software.

  Kind regards
  Robert

• Potential scam from AdobeFlashPlayer_18_a

  A potential scam from AdobeFlashPlayer_18_a - was asked by Adobe to download this file twice - the last time this morning.  The first file has a file of the June 1 date.  The second file has a date of June 30.  The DMG (I use a Mac) file names are the same.  Installation this morning was Adobe logos in dark red.  It's a scam, and Adobe has suffered a security breach?  Your urgent response would be appreciated.

  Hi dc72282719,

  Please goto - Flash Player Help, click check now and please confirm that the version of Flash Player is 18.0.0.203. In addition, Adobe has made some rebranding of all its products including Flash Player and now you see a dark brown Logo instead of the old red, one, please visit Adobe Flash Player install for all versions and you will also find the new logo of the Flash Player.

  Thank you

  Piyush

• How can I create a whitelist?

  Some email messages are being labeled as potentially scam. This e-mail is received on a monthly basis and is not a spam or scam. How can I create a whitelist to avoid the T-bird of incorrect labelling of these messages?

  There is no editing of detection of the scam. It is either on or off. https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/Thunderbirds-scam-detection

• Potential phone scam

  Dear Microsoft product support,

  I got at least 3 calls from the same person who claims to be a Tech from Microsoft IT, and he says he's from New York.  He says that my computer is turning off the messages and I need to fix my computer and he wants me to get on the computer and allow it to help me fix the problem.  I don't think I have a problem with my computer.  It has a foreign accent, possibly Indian and I do not trust him enter into my computer.

  Do you think that it is a scam of phone and I should just ignore him in the future since it is supposed to call back me about 20:00 tonight or simply hang up when he calls.  Please notify earlier.

  Resp/Hugh Morton

  It is a well known phone scam which last for years. Microsoft does not control any PC and has none of the unsolicited calls. He doesn't even know your phone number - how could it?

  In no case give the appellant access to your machine.

• Scam or potential fraud from Microsoft

  I think I have been targeted for fraud today.  I received a phone call from a man with an Indian accent who said he was with Microsoft.  He called because my computer had sent Microsoft a lot of messages about a virus in my computer.  The virus is very active; However, it could not be removed by Essentials.  He said that it was imperative to that upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for the discounted price of $150 immediately to make sure that my computer has not crashed.

  Is this kind of contact action legitimate Microsoft?  I refused to buy the upgrade.  If it of a scam or fraud, I'll help Microsoft with any information I can.

  Saturday, November 3, 2012 22:19:41 + 0000, susanpower wrote:

  I think I have been targeted for fraud today.  I received a phone call from a man with an Indian accent who said he was with Microsoft.  He called because my computer had sent Microsoft a lot of messages about a virus in my computer.  The virus is very active; However, it could not be removed by Essentials.  He said that it was imperative to that upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for the discounted price of $150 immediately to make sure that my computer has not crashed.

  Is this kind of contact action legitimate Microsoft?

  No!

  I refused to buy the upgrade.

  Good!

  If it of a scam or fraud, I'll help Microsoft with any information I can.

  Microsoft is already well aware of this.
  It's a scam and with all the names and phone numbers, one who has
  become 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

• iOS block report because of the third-party application, I answered and they managed remotely on the computer, now I know it's a scam, I turned off and reset the password, I'm in the clear?

  iOS block report because of the third-party application, I answered and they managed remotely on the computer, now I know it's a scam, I turned off and reset the password, I'm in the clear?

  If you allowed anyone remote access to your computer (and you're talking about a computer since you mentioned iOS which is the OS for iDevices; computers run on Mac OS X), while no one knows what they were able to install. Assume the worst and:

  Notify your credit card company / bank of potential fraud

  Change your bank accounts and report your fly/fraud credit card

  Change all of your passwords

  And, finally, erase your entire hard drive and reinstall the OS from scratch using recovery or your original installation disks.

• Scammed by MSN $ 215.00 $ technicians.

  last week, I received a phone call from someoriental technicians fromMicrosoft so they sad, thatMy pc had a virus and it was spreading, Thatit would cost me ten dollarsto fix. I told thatI was not haveany of money. They asked the credit card number, and said itwillonly be ten dollars. They played aroundwith browser and I donot know what they were doing. Today, my wife found outthat they had accused 4215.00 $ toour of credit card and now we are in the red. They used a thathad webpqage the wording "microsoft Help" and other wordingthat iwas unable to newsletter. Now msn said asa can nothing about it and we're fuzzing with our service of credit card applications to see if we can get our money back. DayThrough folowing notebook, I got another rom them message that the eup check was free. I don't know how many people have been scammed, and apparently they did a transfer via Western Union butI have been uneble Giraud-info from Western Union so far. So beware allof the public. Technicians are real ant, eaten ther of thieves.

  ValdemarGonzalez SR.

  E-mail address is removed from the privacy *.

  This is a very common scam and I'm sorry that you set up by it.

  You should get only your problems may not have completed. It can access anything on your PC such as the passwords, personal information. and bank details. Also, they may have left malware on your PC to continue the collection of information for them in the future.

  What you do is entirely your choice and can rely on the information you had on your computer. Personally, I would like to do a clean reinstall of Windows and change all passwords *. I would also say a Bank, etc. everything that happened.

  * Do not change the passwords on a potentially infected computer or scammers can get your new password.

• Microsoft Phone scam

  Recently we received a phone call from "Microsoft Security" and, unfortunately, the person who is answering the phone enabled the appellant to have remote access to our computers. We have 3 additional computers which are connected wireless through our router and I am not computer savvy. I don't know, but are 3 other computers at risk for this potential virus that may or may not have been downloaded on the other computer?

  We changed all of our passwords to Web sites that we can think that have our credit and banking information and take the Tower of the computer that was available since to check, but is there something else to do more?

  All advice is appreciated!

  Hello

  Don't forget to contact your company to Bank and credit card as the PERP may try to access
  your accounts directly.

  Reinstalling Windows (or back to return to the State of out-of-the-box) would be good to do.
  Back up data and be prepared to re - install programs.

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  Avoid scams to phone for tech support
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  In the United States, you can contact the FBI, Attorney general, the police authorities and consumer
  Watch groups. Arm yourself with knowledge.

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), funded in part by the Bureau of Justice Assistance
  (BJA).
  http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

  No, Microsoft wouldn't you not solicited. Or they would know if errors exist on your
  computer. So that's the fraud or scams to get your money or worse to steal your identity.

  Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently - Microsoft is not unsolicited
  phone calls to help you fix your computer
  http://www.Microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/msName.aspx

  Scams and hoaxes
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/cu_sc_virsec_master?ws=support#tab3

  Microsoft Support Center consumer
  https://consumersecuritysupport.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?altbrand=true&SD=GN&ln=en-us&St=1&wfxredirect=1&gssnb=1

  Microsoft technical support
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support#TAB0

  Microsoft - contact technical support
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/contact-support

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Hello my mother was a victim of the eventvwr scam last night.

  Fortunately because she went out to the furthest dinner, she got was going to run and type in eventvwr.  She now has an icon on the computer, what said.  I'm not a computer irritable person at all and obviously neither is she, but I had to cut internet and shut down the computer.  But since it was last night and she just told me this morning you think she went far enough to then hack into or whatever it is that they don't?   Should she be put alerts on their ing bank accounts?  What should I do now?  We need to change its IP address?  Help, please?  How do I know if it will be ok?  I will defintely make to computer technology on the weekend, but for now I got just unplugging everything.

  Fortunately because she went out for dinner furthest, she got was going to run and type in eventvwr.  She now has an icon on the computer, what said.  I'm not a computer irritable person at all and obviously neither is she, but I had to cut internet and shut down the computer.  But since it was last night and she just told me this morning you think she went far enough to then hack into or whatever it is that they don't?   Should she be put alerts on their ing bank accounts?  What should I do now?  We need to change its IP address?  Help, please?  How do I know if it will be ok?  I will defintely make to computer technology on the weekend, but for now I got just unplugging everything.

  If that's all she did, you have been hacked.  This is a very common scam... usually goes something like this:

  • someone calls and says they are with Microsoft, or work with them, and they detected malware on your PC
  • often they get you to open the windows event viewer and report all alarms and events such as "evidence" of problems.  But... the event viewer is always full of such things, and 99.999% of it is bad but is benign.  It's a great tool for fraudsters in order to deceive the innocent.
  • The next thing they would do would be to ask access remotely to the PC, to install their own malicious software and then start asking for credit card numbers to pay for cleaning and so on...

  You will find this interesting: scam emails and credit scam tricks card | Microsoft Security

  And finally, a few tips.
  (1) if the event viewer is what she did, you needn't go to any computer, technical for cleaning.  You can get a ton of good free advice in this forum, including aid step by step if you need it.
  (2) make sure you PC your MOM has it's windows firewall (or any 3rd party firewall) shot.
  (3) if there are certainly active antivirus running.  See above for the MS Security Essentials forum, which is free and very effective.  You can get it here: Microsoft Malware Protection Center
  (4) If you already have another antivirus installed, then make sure that it is updated and scanner.  Install an antivirus at the same time never in real time over, as this leads to potential performance problems and undermines your protection.  There are a lot of good advice on the last link I posted as well.
  Good luck and easy sleep... you should be OK.

• guarantee for the Windows software scam

  Hello

  I received a phone call from someone claiming to work for windows. She said I had a lot of things and viruses on my computer and my computer works more slowly usual I foolishly believed her, despite having norton antivirus 360.
  I tried all the other posts and like them they asked me to put a code 6 digit via logmein123.com or something like that and had access to my computer.
  I was watching all the so-called "technician" was and he has downloaded a program advanced spyware, to show me all the problems I had with my computer and then conducted an audit of the cmd which showed that my windows software guarantee was exhausted, and for him to solve these problems, I had to renew the software warranty.
  I found it quite odd, as well as on the audit of the guaranteed cmd was spelled 'guarantee' and she kept insisting on the fact that I renew the law at this time there. Finally she gave me a phone number to call him back on.
  Now, after seeing this site, I think it was a scam. I got my dads cancelled card, but I will keep an eye on my own bank account. My main concern is that potentially can they do with the little information that I give to myself which was my full name, email address and mobile phone number and no matter where or who can I report this incident?  Also could they have downloaded spyware or viruses at the time, they had access? I tried the site police report puts fraud but they do not specifically ask about myself and about what details have been taken.
  I am particularly concerned that they could use my name and hack my email address. One last question, is that I tried to do a system restore to put the computer to a previous period of time, but whenever I tried it said that it did not work. I have to restart the whole windows vista for nine?
  Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.

  Hello

  I received a phone call from someone claiming to work for windows. She said I had a lot of things and viruses on my computer and my computer works more slowly usual I foolishly believed her, despite having norton antivirus 360.
  I tried all the other posts and like them they asked me to put a code 6 digit via logmein123.com or something like that and had access to my computer.
  I was watching all the so-called "technician" was and he has downloaded a program advanced spyware, to show me all the problems I had with my computer and then conducted an audit of the cmd which showed that my windows software guarantee was exhausted, and for him to solve these problems, I had to renew the software warranty.
  I found it quite odd, as well as on the audit of the guaranteed cmd was spelled 'guarantee' and she kept insisting on the fact that I renew the law at this time there. Finally she gave me a phone number to call him back on.
  Now, after seeing this site, I think it was a scam. I got my dads cancelled card, but I will keep an eye on my own bank account. My main concern is that potentially can they do with the little information that I give to myself which was my full name, email address and mobile phone number and no matter where or who can I report this incident?  Also could they have downloaded spyware or viruses at the time, they had access? I tried the site police report puts fraud but they do not specifically ask about myself and about what details have been taken.
  I am particularly concerned that they could use my name and hack my email address. One last question, is that I tried to do a system restore to put the computer to a previous period of time, but whenever I tried it said that it did not work. I have to restart the whole windows vista for nine?
  Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.

  If someone calls you to start something like this (technology based or not) – chances are it of a scam. Companies best-known do not make cold calls or pretend to know what is the problem with your system until I talk with you in detail or seen.

  Format your system (factory default restore).  How to do this depends on the system and gave you the methods OEM (computer manufacturer).  You can then restore your data from a backup.

  Change all your passwords (online and offline).  I recommend 15 + characters made up of at least three of these four things: uppercase letters (A, B, c...), lowercase letters (a, b, c...), numbers (1, 2, 3...) and symbols (!, #, $, &...)

  Contact all your financial institutions and warn them that you may have been scammed - ask them to score your accounts to help prevent/monitor out of the ordinary transactions.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

• Connect scam 123

  I just read the previous comments on Logmein123 and have had a similar experience. The contact was a Mark Browne and their phone number was 0208 0999 162. Apparently, I have problems with my computer and quoted me 'EVENTVWR' to see the red and yellow that prove that I have problems. I explained that I didn't notice the problems described, but on we went at breakneck speed logging on to a website and almost downloading some software. Fortunatel it did not work and finally I had the time to say NO!

  So if it is a scam, why is it still happeneing? It's late June now and the previous entries were February!

  If you are concerned about these illegal activities, or if you are a victim of fraud activities, you can call the Police and file a complaint with them

  See, Microsoft has no control over these activities of fraud. Microsoft often works with law enforcement to stop these crimes
  

  Here are some business website, starting with

  http://www.fraud.org/

  http://www.LookstooGoodtobeTrue.com/complaint.aspx

  http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

  Filing a complaint allows your complaint of information potentially be combined with other information from related discipline, which can lead to initiation or improvement of the investigation.

  ATTENTION: Don't not bad use/abuse these sites. If you do, you will be liable to a penalty. Please read the FAQ before filling out a complaint

  I hope this helps
  

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• Potential intruders? Or real?

  I received a call from "Brian Smith" in the care system indicating that he was contracted by Microsoft.  He said I had a virus or another potential problem and my computer would crash in 6 hours.  He tried to get the serial number.  It was very expensive in a call center.  His accent was Indian.

  I asked her phone number (888.446.4123), then to speak to his supervisor.  He would not put his supervisor on the phone.

  Was that a potential hacker?  Microsoft contracts of the healthcare system to call people at 19:00 on Friday?

  Thanks for your help.

  It's a scam.   I'm glad you don't fall for it.

  For more information, see the following:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  http://ask-Leo.com/i_got_a_call_from_microsoft_and_allowed_them_access_to_my_computer_what_do_i_do_now.html

  https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/tech-support-phone-scams-surge/

  Kind regards...

• Scam or Dell?

  I got a call this morning a Dell technician assumed that my email has been send spam. I was skeptical because I've seen no unusual activity on my email account, my computer was working well and he wanted to take control remotely to solve the problem (refuse simply to guide me through). This is the point where I hung up because I wasn't going to give remote access to my computer to a potential scammer. It seems to me that If my email has been send spam, it would be a problem with my E-mail security rather than my computer itself. My main question is if it was perhaps a legitimate call. I doubt that it was because I received calls from the scam in the past "Employees of Dell", but thought that I post here to see.

  Hello
  There are related discussions here now:
  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19660527
  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19661177
  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19618345
  There is an ad at the top of this forum: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19624358

  This topic should probably be moved to related security forum.

• Microsoft call and inform you that there may be potential illegal users on your system?

  Strange call

  Windows there people who call you home to let you know the potential illegal users of your computer?

  N ° Microsoft will not call you (they have no phone number) or allow a 3rd party to do so on their behalf.

  It is a scam knitted outside the jurisdiction of the country that calls are made and cannot be stopped by Microsoft.