Posted on 05/04/2012 7:41:46 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian
Got weird phone call (Clearwater, FL number), someone (foreign accent) claiming to be working for company doing support for Microsoft. Verifying that I am running legit Win 7 and they are having problems with my computer sending messages. Asking me to run some program, seeing warning and then asking me to allow them to access my computer remotely and "fix" the problem. Red flag went up, I asked how he got my phone number, apparently from Win 7 registration, which I don't remember providing. Smells like takeover of my computer. Anyone else experienced this? New scam to take over our computers? If so, please be aware of it.
Good advice.
Take legal action against whom? The CID is spoofed and the actual number is likely under a false name and changes frequently. Probably a burner phone. Good luck finding somebody to sue.
With Microsoft's clout, they could get a court order to trace the call logs and trace them.
No, you’re not understanding me. The logs will trace to a prepaid phone purchased with cash from a convenience store six months ago. No surveillance video. Nobody knows who bought it. It’s been destroyed since then. There is no way to trace it to a person, with any amount of resources. If they really want to be anonymous, it’s easy to do.
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