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Offline vesta111

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Harrassed by someone or some fly by night corperation.
« on: June 20, 2014, 05:27:06 PM »
Nuts, as I am not new age savvy, I Had an encounter with some kind of Shill today by phone and PC.

My PC is very ill, every known problem known to man.     

All the problems I have are reported to HP and Windows automatically and a few weeks ago we decided to just trash the PC and bought a new one.     

Being a Yankee I decided to wait until my PC died out right before I replaced it.     Today working on this very slow PC with all kinds of strange ads and pop ups I Received a phone call from someone claiming to be calling from Microsoft as they had 600 errors reported.

Very nice man but his accent was odd for someone calling from N.M. He asked me to turn on the PC and he would help me, guide me to fix my machine.   

Very patient with me as I had a problem understanding him because of his accent and the fact that I am so ignorant of the beast.   

So I sat back thinking well what harm in this.     After following his instructions for 5 minutes I noticed my Pc Mouse was moving on its own, not me and when I asked what was going on he told me in order to help me he had taken control of my PC.

This did not set well with me, kind of gave me the creeps as when he pointed out all the nasty's that got through my security walls he would not tell me how to remove the problems.

Then he went into his sales pitch to buy Micro soft security and even when I told him I planned to replace my PC in a week or so and get security he kept insisting I could transfer to my new PC.

I thanked him for his time and hung up the phone.    This man called me back 6 times and I put the phone on answer, only thing that that stopped the calls was when Hubby came home and answered the call.

Now the end of this bitch, I could not turn off or on my PC, had no control of the beast and Hubby just walked over and pulled the plug.  10 minutes later, I am back in control.

It is true that it is so good to have a man around the house, what would we woman do without them ?




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Re: Harrassed by someone or some fly by night corperation.
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2014, 05:43:15 PM »
Your computer is not safe to use right now, especially if you do any online purchasing or pay bills online.  Microsoft will never call you to help on your computer.

I would download and run a couple of programs.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mssecessentials.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

http://www.safer-networking.org/dl/

Others may have different suggestions to use.


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Re: Harrassed by someone or some fly by night corperation.
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2014, 09:03:18 AM »
Your computer is not safe to use right now, especially if you do any online purchasing or pay bills online.  Microsoft will never call you to help on your computer.

I would download and run a couple of programs.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mssecessentials.html

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

http://www.safer-networking.org/dl/

Others may have different suggestions to use.

Thank you Thundley,   

Today I found on You Tube some of the funniest videos of people that that have fun  messing with the scammers from India.

I do so wish I had seen this before I got MY call and had any idea on how to mess with them.

Seems there is a great many people out there that try to up each other in recording just who can drive the scammers the most crazy.

Microsoft calls are very popular and someone does take control of the PC as they did in my case.   

Now I do hope they will call back as it has been awhile since I had a good belly laugh.   

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Re: Harrassed by someone or some fly by night corperation.
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2014, 08:48:51 AM »
Ask and you shall receive.

Got a call with a Washing DC. no. and I kept the caller on the line for a good 20 minutes. 

To tell the truth I could not understand most of the callers accent so I have no idea what the call was about.    SO I pulled  a trick to get off the phone, Please speak up, I am becoming deaf.   I soon had the caller shouting into the phone and repeating everything they said 2-3 times.   

What fun, I think I have a new hobby here, now I must brush up on my Pig Latin.