Microsoft scam
- Names reported:
- Mr. Robinson, Robert Reid
- Phones reported:
- 845-940-4591, 615-614-7007
- Web/emails reported:
- office365partner.jimdo.com
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.
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Accessible for about 2 month than no more answering of phone
- Also reported:
- Wirebrainz.com dba voyage services, [email protected]
- Phones reported:
- 877-932-5518, 855-371-3600
- Web/emails reported:
- www.wirebrainz.com, www.pctechline.co, [email protected], www.voyserv.com
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.
Windows Security scam
- Also reported:
- True-Tech
- Phones reported:
- 855-601-0002, 607-223-5230
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.
Computer Scam Phone Call
Everything in your article: foreign accent; warning our computer has been tampered with and has a virus; not giving a name or the name of his company, etc. applies. We try and see the tel. # and not pick up, but occasionally have answered quickly and there that person is. I'd like to know how to block that weird telephone #, too!
- Phones reported:
- 123-456-7890
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.
Someone tried to scam me
- Phones reported:
- 884 577-1246, 201 948-1102
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.
Computer Malware
They did not call, but rather, this was the phone number on a computer popup generated by a malware program that my friend somehow got installed on his Windows 7 64-bit computer.
There were two different numbers, in fact
1 888 755 6582
1 844 780 6784
When my friend called,
the scammer claimed to be a Microsoft technician and wanted to charge $180 to fix the problem.
Thankfully my friend did not give anybank account nor credit card information.
Thankfully my friend called me.
The computer's "Task Manager" showed about five different processes (I do not remember their exact names) grouped all together, named something like...
gt_ast???
g2a_???
..I should have saved a screenshot, or recorded the exact names...
I RIGHT-clicked one of those processes, and clicked "Open file location"
It was in the folder "GoToAssistant" (if I am remembering it exactly and correctly) and that was at
C:\Program Files\GoToAssistant
...or it might have been
C:\Program Files (x86)\GoToAssistant
One of those two... for sure, on his 64-bit Windows 7 computer.
That lead me to believe I could uninstall it with the Window 7 "Control Panel" item
"Program and Features".
(which back in the Windows XP days
was the "Control Panel" item
"Add/Remove Programs"
I uninstalled the program using the computer's Microsoft Windows "Control Panel" option
"Programs and Features".
I found it in the list of installed programs as
"GoToAssistant".
I click once on that line to highlight it.
Then I clicked the button at the top of the list, a button labeled "Uninstall".
My friend also had several 'toolbars' in the "Programs and Features" list which I uninstalled, although I do not know if those were related to the GoToAssistant installation.
I also had to open each of his browsers, "Firefox" and "Internet Explorer", and disable a couple of toolbars there.
I wish I knew of the best way to report these $#%'ers so that the would do jail time.
If you have been scammed in this fashion, I know it is embarrassing, but please report it to the police or other authority, so that the immensity of your problem gets put into the public record.
Your report might be the one that finally gets the authorities on the ball.
I wish you all the best, and my heart goes out to you.
- Christopher James Francis Rodgers
- Phones reported:
- 888-755-6582, 844-780-6784
- Identity Theft Risk:
HIGH RISK Click here for the explanation.