Scam artists trying to duke less sophisticated computer users into believing that they have been monitoring their computer and it is about to crash, and validating this by having them look at common errors in the event logs. Fortunately I was able to intervene before things went any further, so I can only speculate as to what this companies end game is.
We have received a number of telephone calls that request we logon to our computers and go to their web site www.ammyy.com. They say they are from MS and their computer database has identified our computers as containing a virus or has been hacked by a third party. This is becoming a real problem.
Same thing happening to me they pointed out some random errors in event viewer and wanted to make me believe that thise are critical virus alerts. Hahahaha, yeah suuuuuuure
Same thing happening to me they pointed out some random errors in event viewer and wanted to make me believe that thise are critical virus alerts. Hahahaha, yeah suuuuuuure
SCAMMER! Called my brother in law today to try to scam him out of $185.00 USD a for six months of "tech support". Had him go to ammyy.com to take remote access of his desktop. I have my brother in law scan his desktop with Malwarebytes quite often but the "tech support" guy said it does nothing and that he had some sort of international microsoft security problem blah blah blah. GARBAGE. I'm going to BBB to escalate this.
They're still at it. Been receiving calls recently exactly as described above. Also tried to have me visit www.teamviewer.com.
Was at my neighbor when this 'tech guy from MS' called and identified my neighbor by name and told him his computer has been hacked and he needs to get a new ID from MS. Had us view a class ID as well as some some stopped services via msconfig and said he will assign a new ID to the computer because of the hack. Wanted us to download a program from 70.38.40.185. Hahaha ... he was cussed out good and proper. Did not call back after that
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