OT: Microsoft Tech Support scam making the rounds...
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:19 pm
Hey guys, I sent email to Fleet 1, but thought i'd post it up here too...
Later
C
Later
C
Hey everyone,
Sorry for the email abuse, normally I wouldn’t do this, but I know we have a few people that aren’t the most Technically savvy computer user’s in Fleet 1 so I thought I’d sent out a warning as this scam is very real, and very well thought out.
I don’t know anyone personally bitten by it, but I do know some MS employees themselves that have received these calls and even they commented while they were certain it was a scam, it was so well done they could see an “Avg Joe” easily falling for this.
So read up, Ars has a nice article about just what happens, and how inventive these people are... and if “Microsoft” starts calling you asking you to make changes to your computer... Hang up the phone
Later
C
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012 ... f-your-pc/