Today a friend of mine, Chris, posted on Facebook with a message alerting his followers about the latest phone scam that he has heard of.
This is the message he posted:
“… to all you good people out there, beware of the latest telephone scam. I just had a call from someone by the name of Jack Wilson, who claims his senior person is Ryan Wilson. They make claims that they are from Microsoft Customer Care Department. They also state that many errors have been sent from my pc. They gave me a contact number of 0218139860/2. As everything on my laptop is legitimate since it is a work notebook I do not have to be concerned about anything. Just wanted to inform you innocent people that they are now phoning you for scams. Please always get as much details as possible and share this with your colleagues.”
I have a very similar scam happen to me a few years ago when I also received a call from “Microsoft” to say my computer was giving errors… Whats more is that knowing a thing or two about computers I thought that I would listen to see what they wanted to do, so I let them give me the instructions of what they needed to do in order to solve the problems on my computer. It turned out that they wanted to get remote control of my computer so that they could practically do anything on my machine. However I managed to stall their plans by delaying them on the phone, and never executed their instructions. They phoned back a few times, but then they gave up after they realised that they were not going to be able to hack into my machine.
So a word of warning to everyone out there. Be on the guard against phone scammers who claim to be from Microsoft. Don’t follow any of the instructions they give you as they may ask you to compromise the security of your pc. Rather tell them that you are not interested and hangup the phone.
Please take a look at my friend Chris’s website www.wellswebtech.com.