New computer scam ?

Interesting gambit:

Get rung up by a voice with a thick accent ( you can guess the origin ) claiming that my computer is generating errors and reporting them to M$soft. Offers to send a technician to help fix the errors and restore computer to "full working order". Cannot give details about which computer is generating the errors. Cannot send a transcript of the error log to me - does not know my email address. But has my name, street address and phone number - which anyone can get by looking in the phone book. Assumes my computer is running Windoze, but does not know which version. Suggests I run the error log report using eventwvr, which does show a few errors and warnings, but then I know about those, and M$soft specifically says that errors from this log are never sent to M$soft.

A good way of getting a bit of work and money ?

An even better way of getting entry to a house with a view to casing the joint ?

Maybe I'm just too suspicious.

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Its a very common scam. The aim is to convince you to sign up to a maintenence deal involving you handing over your CC details to the "maintenence " company.

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Mauried

Thanks. Thats what I thought.

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not at all, most of this stuff is scams these days.

first thing he should know is your IP address, as this is the only method of ID anyway.

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if he doesn't have this, then you aren't reporting errors to him.

Cheers Don...

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Don McKenzie

Nope, just another scam.

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Have had that several times in recent years.

I just tell them that its impossible - as I don't have a computer

If you have to tell them you have one - tell that you are using Linux

- and that it cant be reporting "windows errors" to "microsoft"

I know a mate who often tells spam callers flogging phone plans that he "doesnt have a telephone" :). This really throws them !

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It is unfair to judge an Irishman as 'thick' just on the strength of his accent !

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Probably not the same "scam", but interesting just the same

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Yes, sounds like a variation on the same idea.

IMHO many so-called registry cleaners are not much more than this.

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