Is this serious or a scam?

[loccilucas]

Hi guys, 

So I just got a phonecall on the house phone, from a man claiming to be from a Windows service centre. He told me that my pc has a load of serious viruses that allow other people to access and corrupt all the data on the hard drive.

He asked me to open the windows event viewer, and showed me that I have alot of error and warnings in the "information" section of the event viewer.

He then transferred me to a senior technician who took over the PC using teamviewer and proceeded to open the cmd and show me that my windows defender has expired and showed me lots of access attempts via foreign PC's trying to access my PC.

He then said that I need to renew my windows defender and said that I have to do it while I was on the phone to him with team viewer open, he said it costs £80 for a year, so I told him I would phone back another day as I don't want to handover £80 without abit of research first.

 

 

Can somebody please tell me if this is legitimate and my PC is actually at risk, or if this is an elaborate scam? Because it seems very fishy to me and I also don't know how they got my phone number. When I answered the phone he also told me  that "I have a problem with my pc" but did not specify which pc in particular which I find quite odd aswell.  

 

thanks in advance.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Scam, definitely a scam. Microsoft doesn't call you, they definitely don't use Teamviewer and Windows Defender is free.

 

Edit: Additionally you may want to start considering whether or not they installed anything on your computer while they were using it via Teamviewer. They could quite easily have installed ransomware, a keylogger or similar.

[SIGSEGV]

It's a scam, you should waste their time

[techguru]

scam

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Scam.

[MattTheMayor]

Hi guys, 

So I just got a phonecall on the house phone, from a man claiming to be from a Windows service centre. He told me that my pc has a load of serious viruses that allow other people to access and corrupt all the data on the hard drive.

He asked me to open the windows event viewer, and showed me that I have alot of error and warnings in the "information" section of the event viewer.

He then transferred me to a senior technician who took over the PC using teamviewer and proceeded to open the cmd and show me that my windows defender has expired and showed me lots of access attempts via foreign PC's trying to access my PC.

He then said that I need to renew my windows defender and said that I have to do it while I was on the phone to him with team viewer open, he said it costs £80 for a year, so I told him I would phone back another day as I don't want to handover £80 without abit of research first.

 

 

Can somebody please tell me if this is legitimate and my PC is actually at risk, or if this is an elaborate scam? Because it seems very fishy to me and I also don't know how they got my phone number. When I answered the phone he also told me  that "I have a problem with my pc" but did not specify which pc in particular which I find quite odd aswell.  

 

thanks in advance.

this is a common scam. if they have indian accents (not trying to be racist) then yes definitely lol. i saw lots of youtube videos about this

 

they get your phone number randomly by calling random numbers i think

[cesrai]

Windows defender is free so scam IMO.

And normally there should be errors in my experience.

[minibois]

Uhhhh 100% sure it's a scam.

What are you doing by the way?! Letting people you don't know into your PC?!

 

100% scam.

[techguru]

I would scan the pc to for virus and malware as well

since you let him on

[loccilucas]

Scam, definitely a scam. Microsoft doesn't call you, they definitely don't use Teamviewer and Windows Defender is free.

alright thanks everyone, I knew it seemed fishy but it kinda convinced me when I had about 4000 errors in the event viewer, is that a normal thing?

[Tedster]

Scam. My grandparents complain about these scams.

[Tedster]

alright thanks everyone, I knew it seemed fishy but it kinda convinced me when I had about 4000 errors in the event viewer, is that a normal thing?

Yes, that's normal.

[loccilucas]

Uhhhh 100% sure it's a scam.

What are you doing by the way?! Letting people you don't know into your PC?!

 

100% scam.

lol yeah I was scared to let him use teamviewer, it was one of my stupid gullable moments

[techguru]

alright thanks everyone, I knew it seemed fishy but it kinda convinced me when I had about 4000 errors in the event viewer, is that a normal thing?

pretty much

[Sir Asvald]

Hi guys, 

So I just got a phonecall on the house phone, from a man claiming to be from a Windows service centre. He told me that my pc has a load of serious viruses that allow other people to access and corrupt all the data on the hard drive.

He asked me to open the windows event viewer, and showed me that I have alot of error and warnings in the "information" section of the event viewer.

He then transferred me to a senior technician who took over the PC using teamviewer and proceeded to open the cmd and show me that my windows defender has expired and showed me lots of access attempts via foreign PC's trying to access my PC.

He then said that I need to renew my windows defender and said that I have to do it while I was on the phone to him with team viewer open, he said it costs £80 for a year, so I told him I would phone back another day as I don't want to handover £80 without abit of research first.

 

 

Can somebody please tell me if this is legitimate and my PC is actually at risk, or if this is an elaborate scam? Because it seems very fishy to me and I also don't know how they got my phone number. When I answered the phone he also told me  that "I have a problem with my pc" but did not specify which pc in particular which I find quite odd aswell.  

 

thanks in advance.

SCAMMM ALERT! Please give me the number so I can mess with him!

[loccilucas]

Yes, that's normal.

Alright thanks alot, so glad I didn't pay the money!

[loccilucas]

SCAMMM ALERT! Please give me the number so I can mess with him!

His number was 08000-885-562 and his name was Mark Workson....have fun

[loccilucas]

I would scan the pc to for virus and malware as well

since you let him on

yep, running 2 scans right now, thank you

[Sir Asvald]

His number was 08000-885-562 and his name was Mark Workson....have fun

Thanks! 

[MrKickkiller]

His number was 08000-885-562 and his name was Mark Workson....have fun

 

He aint Working Son (Pun definetely intended)

He is pissing people off

[Mattrixx]

His number was 08000-885-562 and his name was Mark Workson....have fun

Haha, I'm waiting for someone to set up a VM to screw with them. Following this thread just for that.

[Sir Asvald]

Haha, I'm waiting for someone to set up a VM to screw with them. Following this thread just for that.

I've got the same idea! Going to install XP and connect to my separate network.

[TarPitGaming]

Thanks!

Create a thread on the experience

[Mattrixx]

I've got the same idea! Going to install XP and connect to my separate network.

Oh yeah!

[loccilucas]

Haha, I'm waiting for someone to set up a VM to screw with them. Following this thread just for that.

 

I've got the same idea! Going to install XP and connect to my separate network.

haha I feel asif I've just been scammed, and now the LTT forum is gonna come in and fuck em up, like a big family