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| Thread ID: 113303 | 2010-10-13 06:34:00 | www.logmein123.com strangeness | fred1 (3982) | Press F1 |
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| 1144405 | 2010-10-13 06:34:00 | This afternoon I had a phone call from someone apparently from Windows Worldwide Service . He spoke with an Indian accent and said he was phoning to help sort out the problem I have been having with my computer . He asked me to look in run: inf and run: eventvwr and told me all the warnings and error messages were very bad viruses . He then took me to run: cmd and gave a command I can't remember which brought up my CLSID . He then told me my CLSID correctly and said I should open internet explorer and go to www . logmein123 . com and enter my 6 digit code . I explained I did not have a six digit code so he showed me how to find my windows system code and which six digits to use . I entered these and got invalid code . He then started to explain that in order to get a new code because the old one had expired because my computer was full of viruses I had to agree to a six month or one year contract and which did I want . At this point I freaked and said goodbye . Does anyone know what this is about? I have a vague memory of windows sending an error report a few weeks ago, perhaps I put my phone number in it . I should have asked how he got my phone number but I doubt I would have got a useful answer - he was presumably at a call centre in India reading the instructions off a screen rather than a real person who knew what he was talking about . I have since checked a few of the terrible warnings and errors and they seem entirely innocent - things like failing to connect to a hard drive which I knew about or failing to connect to a server . So no big deal . I run Zonealarm and AVG and windows update on my XP machine . As far as I can tell my machine is fine and the call was an excuse to sell me some sort of service contract . Any thoughts or similar experience anyone? |
fred1 (3982) | ||
| 1144406 | 2010-10-13 06:39:00 | Very definitely a scam (somehow). If they ring again tell them you're on Linux :lol: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1144407 | 2010-10-13 06:45:00 | Yes, I found this social.answers.microsoft.com but how did he have my CLSID and phone number? |
fred1 (3982) | ||
| 1144408 | 2010-10-13 08:01:00 | CLSID - probably everyone has that one which you obligingly called up with his command. Ph number - try white pages? Phone book? Customer list bought off other scam merchants? |
linw (53) | ||
| 1144409 | 2010-10-13 11:26:00 | How many other MORONS are gonna fall for this nonsense Some people should not be allowed to own a PC. This scam has been going on for ages |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1144410 | 2010-10-13 18:56:00 | Some people should not be allowed to own a PC. This scam has been going on for ages Going on for ages, that's fine. But the OP is not acutely aware of the incident - not until he has encountered it personally. I think it is more important for us to educate users like fred1 on what makes the whole incident seems like a scam than to criticise him not knowing it in the first place. |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1144411 | 2010-10-13 19:25:00 | This afternoon I had a phone call from someone apparently from Windows Worldwide Service. He spoke with an Indian accent and said he was phoning to help sort out the problem I have been having with my computer. What was the problem you were having? |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1144412 | 2010-10-13 21:32:00 | We had a customer come in to the shop who was scammed by this service. Payed $150 via their credit card and the guy didn't do anything (Or barely anything). Stay away from it. |
Cellux (15145) | ||
| 1144413 | 2010-10-13 23:05:00 | We had a customer scammed by this service. Payed $150 via their credit card and the guy didn't do anything he did do something: A) Got $150 B)Got the credit card details a success as far as he was concerned. I'd love one to ring me, would be fun until he hung up on me...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1144414 | 2010-10-14 10:01:00 | I'd love one to ring me, would be fun until he hung up on me...... Same, I'd love to drive them crazy |
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