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I don’t know whether this is a problem in the USA, but it is in the UK. Most days now I receive a phone call, asking for me by name, no caller ID other than “International”, from someone with an Indian accent, male and female, claiming to be calling from Microsoft. Sometimes it is “Microsoft Technical Service”, sometimes “Windows Registration Department”. A friend was taken in by this hoax, and persuaded to download some file that took control of her computer, which is now away being cleansed.

If you don’t have a support issue open with Microsoft, they will NEVER call you, please don’t be taken by these fraudsters.

i nearly got conned by a pair of gentlemen with indian accents. one bloke phoned saying he was from microsoft technical department ,saying that i was sending junk e mail with crash reports from internet explorer. as i have had problems with explorer and was sending crash reports,i nearly believed him. when i said i couldnt trust him he put me in touch with his so called supervisor, whom i nearly let have access to my computer. if it wasnt for the fact they seemed agitated and desperate and that i had read about this in the “windows secrets newsletter”, which set the alarm bells ringing,to which i put the phone down. i wish to thankyou all and keep up the good work, “relieved computer user”