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Ammyy.com phone scam

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I just got a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft, warning me that my Windows has been sending error reports to them. I knew it was nonsense, but decided to play along. They even transferred me to a "supervisor" at one point. :) He let me go in to computer management and tried to make a big show about the event logs and such. Then he wanted me to load IE and their site from the run command, at which point I Googled Ammyy scam. I then told him it wasn't going to happen, upon which he instantly changed his demeanour, claiming that they had already gotten access to my system and that I should see what happens in half an hour, all while laughing maniacally. :)

So yeah, obviously I don't have anything to worry about. When you go to their site, they supposedly let you click a "start" button that installs some of their hack software that is supposed to clean and fix your system. I have to say, it will be very convincing to noobs and trusting people.

Has something like this happened to anyone here?
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We had a thread about this a while ago?
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doo_much wrote:We had a thread about this a while ago?
Did we? Didn't know.
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Re: Ammyy.com phone scam

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I suspect Oom Doo is referring to the MS health check scam thread.
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Stuart wrote:I suspect Oom Doo is referring to the MS health check scam thread.
Oh yes, remember now. It must be the same people, though these claimed to be phoning from JHB.
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