So last night I got a call on my house phone from a guy with an Indian accent identifying himself as 'David' from Windows Technical Support...
He told me that my PC had been sending error messages telling him that it was infected with harmful malware...
Ok this was a bit suspect - but I went along with it..
He told me to log in to windows and open the event log showing these harmful/malicious programs.
I clicked on one and one of the critical errors was the PC didn't shutdown properly - a pretty common thing.
Then he wanted me to download a Team Viewer type program to fix it and my credit card details for the removal of these so called 'errors'
Alarm bells!!
So at this point I stopped him and hung up.
Hopefully other people around the world have not fallen for this ploy. A google search for 'Windows phone scam' reveals that this is quite common.
NEVER GIVE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE TO UNTRUSTED SOURCES!
He told me that my PC had been sending error messages telling him that it was infected with harmful malware...
Ok this was a bit suspect - but I went along with it..
He told me to log in to windows and open the event log showing these harmful/malicious programs.
I clicked on one and one of the critical errors was the PC didn't shutdown properly - a pretty common thing.
Then he wanted me to download a Team Viewer type program to fix it and my credit card details for the removal of these so called 'errors'
Alarm bells!!
So at this point I stopped him and hung up.
Hopefully other people around the world have not fallen for this ploy. A google search for 'Windows phone scam' reveals that this is quite common.
NEVER GIVE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE TO UNTRUSTED SOURCES!