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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ETM71 on January 18, 2012, 0138 UTC

Title: Phoney Microsoft Support Calls--Heads Up
Post by: ETM71 on January 18, 2012, 0138 UTC

Phoney Microsoft Support Calls--Heads Up

Just thought I'd mention it. Got three of them just today. Poor dumb bastards!  :P

Title: Re: Phoney Microsoft Support Calls--Heads Up
Post by: Fansome on January 18, 2012, 0149 UTC

I recall that this came up in #pirateradio a month or two ago. I did some research at the time, and one thing that came up was that these people were apparently preying on the elderly, in particular. In fact, there was some speculation that they had gotten ahold of an AARP mailing list.

Their procedure is to try to get the victim to enable remote access on their computer, in order to install a Microsoft update, or otherwise fix some problem that Microsoft had discovered with their computer. Of course, once the victim did this, providing access information such as the admin password to the caller, their computer would be owned, along with any and all personal information held on it.

Title: Re: Phoney Microsoft Support Calls--Heads Up
Post by: ETM71 on January 18, 2012, 1442 UTC

Thanks for the info, Al. I knew something was screwy when, after the third call and I got pissed and yelled at the guy, he freaked and started yelling back lol. That and when on the initial call he asked for someone who must've had our phone number before us at some point.