Actually, he doesn’t claim to be from Microsoft exactly, but the unwary could get that impressions he claims to be from “Windows support”. I had one of these a year or so ago.
Here’s a recording of someone winding up one of these fellas: http://buddy.brannan.name/hacker.mp3 Sorry. I forget where I originally found this, likely on audio boo or something, but this isn’t me, of course. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > While OT, still important. There is a new scam, prevalent on the US west > coast but might be elsewhere. You receive a phone call from a fast-talking > dude who obliquely purports to be from Microsoft. His pitch goes something > like, "blah blah this is windows support, we're getting error messages from > your computer. Can you get to your computer now ... blah ... we can solve it > ... it's all very secure ... blah," at which point I hung up. Have now had 3 > more of them. > > While there's probably no one on this list who would fall for this, it might > be wise to advise less-technically inclined family members of this and to > hang up immediately. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 > - www.cqp.org > > On 9/3/2013 9:08 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > >> Be safe and be aware, call the phone number on your billing account for >> your ISP before sending email to any requests like that. > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
