A Phonecall from a microsoft techie

balloo_2

Just had a phone call from an Indian woman said she was a microsoft technition and wanted me to switch the computer on so they could view my pc for viruses. they wanted me to type in www.teamviewer.com so they could do this. Should i do it. :eek:

Benet

Its a common scam, do absolutely nothing they suggest.

Fifer

Absolutely not. It's a scam. They will get you to grant them remote access to your computer.

free4440273

it's a setup/ don't be the patsy

david39

Think about it -

Would Microsoft be ringing all of their hundreds of millions of individual Windows users to give each one a personal service - NO WAY!

How much do you think that would be costing them?

fiddiwebb

Just be aware that after this weekends malware attacks this telephone scam will be on the increase again.

kwikbreaks

Did it ever decrease? We seem to see one of these threads most weeks.

giraffe69

It won't decrease as long as there are many who simply wil not engage their brains. It seems to be a matter of "Ooh, this technology is very difficult so my normal intelligent response goes out of the window and I must do anything anyone says" Now let me see who can I giver my credit card details to.............................

Mr_Yoda

There's also another thread on this, https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3010342 where a number of other forum members have received similar calls.

JJ_Egan

Simple rule in our house if the caller does not speak a clear form of English be it with an accent or not then the phone is put down .
Most of these scammers have particularly heavy Indian sub continent accents .

jje

Toxteth_OGrady

JJ_Egan wrote: »

if the caller does not speak a clear form of English be it with an accent or not then the phone is put down .

In my experience that probably discounts 90% of UK call centres as well :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:cool:

TOG