yesterday 27sep12 i got a phonecall (nbr 0017078229870) there was silence for a few seconds… than a computer beep… and a female computer voice saying goodbye…
today 28 sep 12 i got a phonecall from (nbr 0016184631412) an indian male from windows services ??? with a story about malware and virus and how they were receiving messages from my personal computer for several weeks now…
he offered to fix my computer for free…
only problem with this is… i am running linux.
so told him to fuck off…
reporting this to alert you folks… this is no doubt an attempt to install malware on my pc
location rotterdam, netherlands.
There are many examples of the many ways that bad guys use to trick users on this or some other way…
Something like that, maybe it is interesting to read ;D
When a group of scammers inadvertently called Sourcefire software engineer Noah Magram on his home phone, Magram decided to play along. Without revealing his expertise, he allowed them to remotely access a VMware virtual machine on his computer, while playing along and recording all of their actions…
This certainly isn’t new there are many such speculative cold call telephone scams purporting to be XX support, etc.
I’m totally surprised that anyone falls for it (you didn’t) but even if you had windows there is no way they can link your installation of windows to your telephone number, when this isn’t a requirement to register windows. Even if it were, they would have to be able to know your license number that isn’t passed when browsing, etc and then there is the complexity of the IP address to try and match.
Simply not possible and even less so when one or more of the requirements to identify you aren’t present, but the scammer relies on the person answering the phone not understanding how they would even know.
I got the same phonecall as well, Indian guy saying he was ringing from microsoft, saying my laptop has issues, knew at the start it was fraudulent, Think this is a worldwide scam operation
