<div>Hi Andrew,</div><div><br></div>My parents get quite a few of these.. am staying with them for a week and took one last night, leading the caller on a wild goose chase.<div><br></div><div>I was firstly informed to go to computer -> manage -> event viewer -> windows logs -> application logs where they claimed that the errors and warnings I could see were indications of viruses and computer corruption.</div>
<div><br></div><div>By this time I had setup a virtual machine with XP with which to continue on the ruse. Long story short they had me install an application for remote access and then tried to convince me to pay for "software warranties and support" (via paypal, and then their website because my card didn't work - fake card of course) to 'fix' the viruses on my machine :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone is interested I recorded the whole conversation as well as taking screen caps of the sites they had me visit at the time, unfortunately no caller ID at parents place however it sounded like it was coming from a call center of sorts. </div>
<div><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)"><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)"><br>
</span></div>Andrew Cox<br></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Senior Network Administrator</span><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">AccessPlus / BigAir Universe Broadband<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 August 2011 13:10, Andrew Yager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@rwts.com.au">andrew@rwts.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Just had an interesting call from Microsoft Windows Support telling me my computer had a virus.</div><div><br></div><div>I told them that the Kernel was missing and it kept restarting.</div>
<div><br></div><div>They have given me a phone number to call them back on - does anyone have a good way to find the carrier who holds that number to alert them to their customers "dubious" activity? It's quite obviously a VoIP service - sounds like an ILBC codec at one point (at least).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Andrew</div><div> <font color="#888888"><br><div>
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