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    Default Microsoft Called my Mom?

    "Microsoft" called my mother today telling her she had a horrible virus on her computer, and that tomorrow she needed to be in front of her computer to turn it on and help them...I think its a huge scam and told her that, so what do you think we should do?
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    Default Re: Microsoft Called my Mom?

    Definitely some sort of scam or prank.

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    Default Re: Microsoft Called my Mom?

    Fire up a Linux VM in fullscreen!

    Use pseudonyms!
    Eaton Brock Lee, for example.

    Obviously fake credit card numbers!

    1337 1337 1337 1337, or 1234 5678 9012 3456!
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    yea it fake i had the same people phone my grandma and she gave them her credit card. if you get on the phone with them ask where they got the information from. and if they refuse to tell them not to phone. >.< and report it to the local cops.
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    That is without a doubt a scam. It would be a giant invasion of privacy just to know that there was a virus on her computer, because how else would they know if they didn't take a look through her computer? Now obviously this scam organization hasn't done that, as it's nearly impossible with the level of Encryption that Windows has, but it's a safe assumption that whoever they call is likely to have a virus, given that viruses are quite common. Just keep calling people until you find someone. It would be pretty easy, actually. And there are a lot of computer illiterate people in the world to prey upon...

    If she has any doubts, point her to this thread I suppose?

    If there's something you want to do about it, I suppose you could report it. To where I'm not sure...

    Edit: Also, Microsoft have their very own Anti-Virus software, called Microsoft Security Essentials. All you have to do is install it from their site. Why would they need you to do anything else at all? And why would they care anyways? It would cost a metric ton of cash to put every windows user under "virus surveillance", let alone it's legality issues. Yeah. This would never happen in a million years. 100% scam. No question or shadow of a doubt.

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    the way the get in is though some sort rdp connection i think though port 80 or 443
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    Funny, I've had a few employees at the company I work for call in saying they have received calls from "IT" telling them that there computer was broken and that they would need to be in front of it so that "IT" could remote in and repair it.

    Actually kind of terrifying, knowing the people I talk to. We DO frequently remote in for fixes. We also ask for usernames, passwords, and other sensitive information that we probably shouldn't need to so our field reps are likely to go along with something like this. It is, however, rare that we would reach out to them preemptively (but not unheard of.)

    Luckily the few employees i talked to saw through the scam and actually called us instead of just going with what this faux "IT guy" was telling them. God knows how much sensitive info they could gleam off these machines if they got on to the corporate network.

    Hopefully this scam doesn't grow. It seems like an awful lot of effort to have live people calling people to infect machines.
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    tbh i think it is growing >.< from what i see it has been moving alot
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    Every news station should plug in 5 seconds worth of warnings about popular scams going around. It'd be better than even one person falling for it.
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    Default Re: Microsoft Called my Mom?

    I knew it was a scam, I'm just going to tell the person that they need to stop calling her...I'm glad she knew not to give her any thing!
    [Kayin] 7:38 pm: Actually, during a hostile takeover, Satan's left nut and all his crabs beat Satan at the board meeting (he didn't know that his crabs held stock)
    and so we're owned by a conglomerate of pubic lice and the left testicle of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.

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