Feb 12, 2014
Funny. I work at Microsoft. My wife had too. Received this call from a foreign male stating that he was from Windows technical support and their report showed my computer wasn't updating...and that I needed to press the Control key plus another key on my computer. I played stupid for a bit, but felt an urge to call him out. He than stated my wife's name (pronouncing it wrong) and asked about her computer. I should have played along a bit longer to get a better understand what they are attempting to have unsuspected victims do. Unfortunately, once I challenged him and stated that I work for Microsoft and have no issues with my machine, he hung up. Important piece here is that it appears that they not only have our numbers, but our names as well. If anyone has an opportunity to receive this call and reads this, play along with the caller, just do not perform any actions on your machine. We need to identify what they are requesting users to perform. It is obviously a scam.