George
January 17th, 2014, 09:04 AM
You guys may ask, after reading this, "well, did he say this?" "Did he ask about that?" This is all I know. I have no other info. I assume this was a scam but my wife is upset and I suppose it's theoretically possible that it's not a scam, but I'm thinking 99.9% likely this is something to forget about.
I'm at work right now. My wife just called me and sounded very stressed. That's typical because, as anyone with kids knows, when Mom gets on the phone, little kids decide they need attention NOW. And she was on two phones! Here's the deal:
She called me from home, but from her cell phone. She said she had a guy on hold (phone muted) who had just called our landline. He said he was calling from India from some "Windows support group". She said he had a heavy accent and was very hard to understand. She asked him if he worked for Microsoft and he said no but was some kind of Microsoft certified something or other.
He told her that her "Windows computer" was sending out messages of some kind and this was a problem. He wanted her to log into her computer while he wa son the phone. I'm suspecting it would have been a request for remote access, as the IT guys do in my company when I call them with a computer question. They take over from the another office. Or perhaps he wanted some other info that he would have asked her to find and give to her.
She said the only info she gave him, without thinking, was "Which computer?" (We have two WinXP PCs at home). He then asked her how many we had and she told me that's when she then got her wits about her and told him "none of your business".
That's when she muted the landline and called me from her cell phone to ask what to do. I told her to hang up, and she did, without ever unmuting the phone. I figured if it this was a real thing, he would call back right away and leave a message, which I could then deal with when I get home.
Have you guys heard of this before? I'm thinking it's gotta be a scam - a guy fishing for suckers during the day and hoping to get clueless Moms home with their kids (normall our kids would be in Kindergarten but there's no school today) or the elderly.
Thanks.
I'm at work right now. My wife just called me and sounded very stressed. That's typical because, as anyone with kids knows, when Mom gets on the phone, little kids decide they need attention NOW. And she was on two phones! Here's the deal:
She called me from home, but from her cell phone. She said she had a guy on hold (phone muted) who had just called our landline. He said he was calling from India from some "Windows support group". She said he had a heavy accent and was very hard to understand. She asked him if he worked for Microsoft and he said no but was some kind of Microsoft certified something or other.
He told her that her "Windows computer" was sending out messages of some kind and this was a problem. He wanted her to log into her computer while he wa son the phone. I'm suspecting it would have been a request for remote access, as the IT guys do in my company when I call them with a computer question. They take over from the another office. Or perhaps he wanted some other info that he would have asked her to find and give to her.
She said the only info she gave him, without thinking, was "Which computer?" (We have two WinXP PCs at home). He then asked her how many we had and she told me that's when she then got her wits about her and told him "none of your business".
That's when she muted the landline and called me from her cell phone to ask what to do. I told her to hang up, and she did, without ever unmuting the phone. I figured if it this was a real thing, he would call back right away and leave a message, which I could then deal with when I get home.
Have you guys heard of this before? I'm thinking it's gotta be a scam - a guy fishing for suckers during the day and hoping to get clueless Moms home with their kids (normall our kids would be in Kindergarten but there's no school today) or the elderly.
Thanks.