Beware of Scam Phone Calls from "Microsoft Tech Support"

[c.d.]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244207/Fake_Windows_tech_support_calls_continue_to_plague_consumers

I got a call from them last night. Apparently, they are aggressively targeting the U.S. and the U.K.

YouTube has a lot of videos of people who were aware of the scam and played along just to frustrate the scammer. Very funny.

c.d.

[belinda]

I got one from the "Anti Hacking Department" tonight. As soon as I heard that I hung up.

[c.d.]

Hello Belinda,

Did the caller have an Indian accent? The scam seems to originate from India.

c.d.

[belinda]

Indian.I get a lot of calls from the "technical department " too telling me there is something wrong with my internet connection

[c.d.]

A heads up -- it looks like these guys are at it again. I have gotten several calls recently.

c.d.

[pinkmoon]

scam

There's an email going around about infected pork luncheon meat ignore it it's spam.

[Robert]

Ditto the one about poisoned salmon - a fishing scam.

[kensei]

A caller i.d. box works wonders. If you see a number with a ridiculously far away area code or an 800 number or anything else that raises a red flag, you can simply not answer. It's a good ward against both scammers and telemarketers/surveyers that are legal but annoying.

[GUT]

But people keep falling for them.

[Mayerling]

There's an email going around about infected pork luncheon meat ignore it it's spam.

Hi Pinkmoon,

Sorry but you are going to have to clarify your statement. When you say the e-mail is "spam" you mean it is a junk e-mail, not a reference and pun type joke regarding infected pork luncheon meat to the food known as 'spam" that was the subject in a Monty Python sketch?

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Ditto the one about poisoned salmon - a fishing scam.

Hi Robert,

Now I am beginning to see a pattern emerge here. You mean "fishing" as in poisoned salmon or "phishing" as in trying to wheedle out important information from childlike schools of human guppies?

Jeff

[GUT]

Hi Pinkmoon,

Sorry but you are going to have to clarify your statement. When you say the e-mail is "spam" you mean it is a junk e-mail, not a reference and pun type joke regarding infected pork luncheon meat to the food known as 'spam" that was the subject in a Monty Python sketch?

Jeff

He was TRYING to be funny Jeff.

[GUT]

Hi Robert,

Now I am beginning to see a pattern emerge here. You mean "fishing" as in poisoned salmon or "phishing" as in trying to wheedle out important information from childlike schools of human guppies?

Jeff

Grrrrrroooooooooooaaaan!!!!!!!!!

[Mayerling]

Grrrrrroooooooooooaaaan!!!!!!!!!

G'Day GUT,

No doubt the scam artist on his fishing/phishing expeditions will not be satisfied until he brings back many, many scallops of his victims.

Jeff

[GUT]

G'Day GUT,

No doubt the scam artist on his fishing/phishing expeditions will not be satisfied until he brings back many, many scallops of his victims.

Jeff

G'day Jeff

They're getting worse.