BEWARE of a call from a Microsoft tech

[CaliforniaMama]

I got a call from India. The guy said he was a Microsoft tech. He said they had been getting notices of viruses on my computer and he was calling to help me fix it.

Red flag in brain starts waving.

He told me to go to Start and Right click on Computer, then select Computer Management.

In Computer Management he told me to Expand Event View then expand Application. He told me that every yellow and red flag meant I had viruses on my computer that would download every time I went on the internet.

"What about my virus software?"

He told me the virus software wasn't keeping up with these and he would tell me how to fix them.


I told him to hang on a sec and put the phone down. I went to That's Nonsense and found this article that says:

The scam relies on the victim believing the scammer represents Microsoft, or some other professional and relevant body such as anti-virus companies. However companies like this do not cold call users in such a manner, so if such a call arises, users are advised to inform the scammer that they are aware of the scam and hang up the phone immediately. This way the scammer should acknowledge that further calls would be futile.

I hear the guy yelling for me through the phone, so I pick it up to continue with him. He tells me to get on the internet and go to Ammyy Admin, a remote access provider, where I see:


I tell the guy about the warning and he says they put that there to warn fakers away. :