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Mobile phone scam?

Anonymous
2023-07-15T20:19:07+00:00

I got a call from +18553308653 claiming to be Microsoft and asked me to press the pound key to confirm sign in. I did not sign in to Microsoft at all when this happened nor have I used my account that day yet a received this call.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T21:43:38+00:00

    I got a call from +18553308653 claiming to be Microsoft and asked me to press the pound key to confirm sign in. I did not sign in to Microsoft at all when this happened nor have I used my account that day yet a received this call.

    They are random SCAM calls.

    Thank you for posting that warning.

    These scams happen world-wide 1,000s of times a day and have been for many years.

    A lot of the time phone numbers are "spoofed" to appear to be calling from a local area, when in fact they are calling from countries which are outside western law enforcement jurisdiction.

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    It is a Scam.

    Microsoft will never contact you with cold-calls, popups, etc.

    This is the advice given to anyone who has any phone calls, etc. like this about Malware, License Expiry, Refunds, etc..

    And your machine does not send out messages to anyone saying that it has problems or is infected with Malware, etc.

    We all have errors and warnings in our event viewer, which is another ploy they use to scare you

    These so-called "Microsoft" Tech Companies either want to sell you worthless software, or gain Remote Access to your Computer to try and steal your Banking and Credit Card details and to also carry out an Identity Theft on you.

    You are the only one who knows if you have given them Remote Access.

    If you have given them Remote Access and if you do Internet Banking, contact your Bank, explain it to them and change Passwords.

    If you use your Credit Card online, cancel it and get a new one issued to you.

    And the only way that you willl know that you are free of them is to save your Data and do a clean install of your Operating System.

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    And Microsoft does not contact you, unless YOU have made prior arrangements with them to do so.

    There is a section in the link I am supplying you about this at the end of it

    Read this Microsoft Information:

    Protect yourself from tech support scams:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/4013405/windows-protect-from-tech-support-scams

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