Mar 26, 2015
Attempted scam. Decided to play him a bit.
Number might also be spoofed. Not sure if it is London UK missing the leading 0. Or a USA number missing the 00 international prefix and the 1 for the USA.
Guy claimed to be called 'Vinny' and spoke with a strong Indian accent. Claimed the name of the company as Online Tech Support of 14 Hanover Street, London with head office in Dubai. Told me they worked for Windows and were Microsoft certified and that my computer had been reporting errors to the 'Windows server' for several days.
Had me run the 'assoc' command in the cmd window. Claimed that the entry which he recited verbatim, .zfsendtotarget=CLSID\{888DCA60-FC0A-11CF-8F0F-00C04FD7D062}, near the bottom is unique to my computer and was recorded on the 'Windows server'. An attempt to persuade me that he was legit as he was genuinely able to see unique info (which of course it isn't, any recent Windows installation has the same entry) .Then had me run event viewer. Hung up after 26 mins when I pressed him further on the company address.