Is this a scam- call from Microsoft?

[LibertyGal72]

I have just googled it it appears that it is an old scam too, gosh I am so behind the times!

I have downaloded the software but they don't have the ID or password so I will delete it and tell them to get lsot if they call again.

As you have downloaded the software, be careful about any messages that come up for a while. These programs can hide themselves and pop up when you least expect it.

Do you have a decent internet security package?

As a precaution I would also ensure that any pics, documents and other important stuff is backed up. The last time our machine went beserk the only we could recover it, to make it work right, was to reset to factory settings.

[Peony]

SCAM. What's worse is that FIL won't believe us and handed over his credit card details for what is actually free antivirus software. To be honest that's as far as it seems to have gone.

[scatterbrain]

complete scam! I get calls from them at least twice a week. I usually tell them I don't have a computer, which really foxes them as it's not on their script.

They're after remote access to your computer at which point someone who knows what they are doing takes all your passwords & plants viruses etc. It's pretty well known, but so sad that some people fall for it (they must do or they wouldn't continue with the calls).

[parkejm]

My favourite thing to say is that it's a works laptop and that I need them to contact my IT dept or get my IT dept to call them and can I have a contact number. They insist it's my personal PC (I don't have a PC) and not a work laptop and I just stick to my guns telling them all about the forms that's I'll need to fill in etc. Usually they get very exasperated and tell me I am 'not understanding them' and then hang up.

I don't always do it though, very often I just say no thanks and hang up.

[Damsella]

If you run Windows then Windows Security Essentials is a good anti-virus application, and free:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/w...ity-essentials

[Sam]

I always get the Virus on your computer, I reply I shall get it some anti-biotics and they normally hang up.

[helpimfalling]

They called my mum and asked her and she said no I'm busy kept calling and she said do you want to talk to the police and explain the problem to him as he's sitting at my kitchen table and the ass hole said
"are you f£&@ing him mrs "
I felt sick when she told me cheeky bastards"
They still
Bloody call!!!


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[popinjay1]

I've never heard of this scam before. Never had a phone call like it yet anyway. I just get the PPI ones constantly and have now turned my phone ringer off. Anyone who needs to get hold of me has my mobile anyway!

[Biba]

Thanks Damz