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04-23-2013, 09:30 PM
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Windows phone call scam
My wife handed me the phone, telling me it was someone from Microsoft. They never introduced themselves by name or said Microsoft when I took the phone, they just claimed that my computer was sending error messages to "them" and my computer was infected with a virus. He urged me to access my computer, but not wanting to fall prey, I asked him to identify which of my 4 computers running Windows it was. All he could do was repeat it was the computer running Windows. I then told him he was a scammer, at which he became upset and told me this virus would cause me serious problems and hung up.
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04-24-2013, 01:42 AM
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lipper. Have a read of the last thread in this sticky.
Malwarebytes articles and dealing with malware
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04-24-2013, 08:33 AM
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Yep, it's a known scam.
?I am calling you from Windows?: A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica | Ars Technica
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04-24-2013, 11:53 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Just ask them if the Start button is the one in the upper left corner that looks like a bitten apple.
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04-25-2013, 03:20 AM
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the DUKE!
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What's a start button? and where is it again? Oh, if I just had the time...
You should hear me with a telemarketer if I'm not busy!  Drives the wife up the wall too.. always fun on a lazy Sunday afternoon!
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04-25-2013, 09:16 AM
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Techphile.
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I will toy with solicitors/scammers occasionally as well. It is my duty to society to slow them down.
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04-25-2013, 11:19 AM
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I got one of those some time ago as well.
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