Windows Support Center Scam
28-May-14 20:27
While at my PC I received an unsolicited telephone call from someone who spoke in a thick East Indian accent. He claimed to be from an organization called the "Windows Support Center."
He claimed that they had received an unusually large number of error messages from my PC, demonstrating that I had been invaded by a dangerous malware virus. He wanted me to download some software to solve the problem.
Because I have had experience with this kind of scam before, I did not give him any information about me. I did not download anything. Instead I asked him for his telephone number. He gave me (602)903-2109.
When I did an internet search for Windows Support Center and the telephone number I got this:
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602-903-2109 by Michael A. on Jan. 27, 2014 06:46 pm
“DO NOT CALL them. They are part of that "Windows Support Center" scam (Indian accents) that calls you and tells you that your computer has alerted them to being infected by viruses. They then take you to your Windows Event Viewer show you a few warning messages that are normal to all computers to try and mislead you into thinking this is proof of being infected. They then ask you to go to a website and download software which will all them at "the support center" the ability to remotely connect to your computer and game over they will have access to everything ”
http://whatnumberis.com/602-903-2109/phone-number.html
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If you get a call like that, do not give the person any information about yourself, or your computer. After you hang up it is probably a good idea to do an area wide scan of your computer.
He claimed that they had received an unusually large number of error messages from my PC, demonstrating that I had been invaded by a dangerous malware virus. He wanted me to download some software to solve the problem.
Because I have had experience with this kind of scam before, I did not give him any information about me. I did not download anything. Instead I asked him for his telephone number. He gave me (602)903-2109.
When I did an internet search for Windows Support Center and the telephone number I got this:
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602-903-2109 by Michael A. on Jan. 27, 2014 06:46 pm
“DO NOT CALL them. They are part of that "Windows Support Center" scam (Indian accents) that calls you and tells you that your computer has alerted them to being infected by viruses. They then take you to your Windows Event Viewer show you a few warning messages that are normal to all computers to try and mislead you into thinking this is proof of being infected. They then ask you to go to a website and download software which will all them at "the support center" the ability to remotely connect to your computer and game over they will have access to everything ”
http://whatnumberis.com/602-903-2109/phone-number.html
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If you get a call like that, do not give the person any information about yourself, or your computer. After you hang up it is probably a good idea to do an area wide scan of your computer.
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