Has anyone received calls from Indian Indians that claim they are with Dell and want you to fix your key login malware. They don't quit and assure me my computer reached out to Dell to let them know I had a problem. The number on my caller id as 99966. Has Dell tried to discourage these guys?
Unfortunately this is a very common SCAM... while they sometimes claim to be from a particular hardware manufacturer (such as DeLL), more commonly, they assert that they're calling from Microsoft.
Regardless, it's a SCAM, and you need to know NOT to allow them any access to your computer... nor to pay them anything (do NOT give them any credit-card nor bank information).
There's very little that DeLL/Microsoft can do, since these scammers can set-up-shop and call from anywhere.
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Posted August 14th, 2014 16:00
Unfortunately this is a very common SCAM... while they sometimes claim to be from a particular hardware manufacturer (such as DeLL), more commonly, they assert that they're calling from Microsoft.
Regardless, it's a SCAM, and you need to know NOT to allow them any access to your computer... nor to pay them anything (do NOT give them any credit-card nor bank information).
There's very little that DeLL/Microsoft can do, since these scammers can set-up-shop and call from anywhere.