Received a call from #315-352-4665 which claims to be 'Windows Support' - real or scam?

They claimed that they have received messages from my Windows system and I'll take problems more and more every day.  They wanted to ' ' guide me through the various things on my computer.  I refused and wanted proof that they were a real organization of Microsoft, but I couldn't find the number given as Microsoft. -is it a scam or reality?

They claimed that they have received messages from my Windows system and I'll take problems more and more every day.  They wanted to ' ' guide me through the various things on my computer.  I refused and wanted proof that they were a real organization of Microsoft, but I couldn't find the number given as Microsoft. -is it a scam or reality?

This a complete scam and one that has become very common these days. . Don't think anything such a caller said, do nothing that he tells you to do and hang up on him immediately.

At let them into your computer? If you did you are at serious risk for what they could have done it (installed spyware? Identity theft? Steal the passwords?), and I highly recommend that you do the two following:

1 reinstall Windows properly

2. change all your passwords, especially those of the financial institutions and online stores.

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