Microsoft Call Scam

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

I have just received a phone call from a guy calling himself Harry, he has a pronounced "Asian" accent.

 

 

Harry claims to be a specialist advisor at Microsoft and has information that my computer is at risk.

 

 

Had these before but this time my wife answered and Harry used her first name and asked for me by my first name.

 

 

Number with held of course.

[maroondevo52]

Give handy Harry control of your computer, he'll sort you out in no time

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

Give handy Harry control of your computer, he'll sort you out in no time

Thank you so much for your prompt response!!

[maroondevo52]

Thank you so much for your prompt response!!

 

No problem, if your computers at risk prompt action is required.

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

No problem, if your computers at risk prompt action is required.

 

 

Ok I put him on team viewer so he can share his wisdom with CAG.

[maroondevo52]

Ok I put him on team viewer so he can share his wisdom with CAG.

 

Good stuff, can't wait !!!

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

Good stuff, can't wait !!!

I hope you speak How's your Bengali??

[maroondevo52]

I hope you speak How's your Bengali??

 

Khuba bhāla

 

খুব ভাল

[JoeyJoeC]

I know people that fall for this [problem].

[leigh04]

Happened to me about 2 weeks ago, stating I had a problem with my computer funny that its brand new butI just replied "oh really considering I havent got a computer" they put the phone down and havent called back since.

[JoeyJoeC]

It's the new way of "hacking". Phone up pretending to be Microsoft, acquire access to PC, infect said PC with ransom ware.

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

Khuba bhāla

 

খুব ভাল

 

 

Have passed on you e-mail address

[Guest]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/11/malwarebytes

 

at least one ms [problem]mer got nicked

edit; seems to be broken link! search 'ms call macs' (macs backwards) and they'll come up.

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/11/malwarebytes

 

at least one ms [problem]mer got nicked

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/03/microsoft-support-[problem]-ringleader-gets-suspended-jail-sentence-and-fine

 

 

It seems the is an attack on people in my area of the country at present.

 

 

The use of correct names is a worrying change!

[Guest]

thats why the links broke - the word macs

[ericsbrother]

Had several in the past. One called back 6 or 7 times after I had told him to f off so that would have been on the 3rd call. My daughter recorded my end of the call as she thought is hilarious that I told him that after when he had indeed f***ed off he should f*** off some more.

They use skype to call you so you never get a number.

[unclebulgaria67]

They have attempted to contact me on numerous occasions. I have done 1471 and according to whocallsme, there is mention of Microsoft. I am not sure whether they actually attempt to hack peoples information, but may be just trying to sell them security software.

 

I refuse to accept these calls and have my phone permanently on answerphone. I am registered with TPS, but that does not stop foreign calls. Even the ones that leave an English sounding answerphone message are actually based abroad.

[nuclearshark]

I have a virtual machine to one side explicitly offnet from the rest of my computer systems for these !!

 

I would happily waste an hour of their time on a virtual machine which has got nothing of any value on it knowing their getting the bad deal rather than me. Also can sleep at night knowing that was 1 hour or so they weren't messing up someone else's computer. Of course I record the call and the movements in the Virtual Machine on VMware ESX and send it all off to ActionFraud.

 

I may or may not in the past have also modified the firewall so the moment they did the TeamViewer or AMMY download, connected to the Virtual Machine. Changed the outbound NAT direction to load something of offensive nature. Then say on the phone "Yes this is one of the problems I've been having, please fix it for me. I'm fed of this meat spin page coming up every time I want to go into my Online Banking"

 

Really should put some of these on YouTube... The reactions I've had are quite amusing! One said they would contact the UK Border Police to have me deported to face charges of Embarrassment in the Workplace. I told him I was an illegal immigrant for 5 years and they hadn't found me yet so I probably had it coming and cut the line.

 

These :-x:mad2: are nasty pieces of work. In all seriousness and apologies for the caps and large letters:

 

NEVER ACCEPT REMOTE IT SUPPORT FROM COLD CALLERS

Edited August 20, 2014 by nuclearshark
Removed a naughty word. My bad. Sorry :(

[JoeyJoeC]

nuclearshark - YouTube it please.

[labrat]

i usually tell them i run a text based linux - after ive got bored of winding them up

[caro]

I got one of these calls at work a few weeks ago. They hung up when I said I'd put them through to our IT department.

 

Then I had one at home saying my OS would stop operating at 6 o'clock that evening as it was out of date. I said that I thought as it had windows 8 I thought it should be ok.

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

Another one this morning, very bad line.

 

 

Same voice too I think, just said to him " online fraud department" a hurried disconnection!

[postmn]

my father has had those but he always hands them over to me and I always have fun with them , however I can see how someone not savvy could be scammed

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

my father has had those but he always hands them over to me and I always have fun with them , however I can see how someone not savvy could be scammed

Very easy unfortunately and this latest lot across East Anglia have the correct 1st names of the people they are calling.

[Guest]

did a quick googly re these ms cons. saw a tel number on one of those 'who calls' sites, that has apparently been used by 'them'. seems to be from iran!