Attention

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent our advertisers

Thursday, July 11, 2013

WARNING!!! BEWARE OF NEW LOCAL PHONE/INTERNET SCAM

An associate of Salisbury News, (go figure) was called this morning and told they were from Microsoft, (or some other Internet company) and they had detected a serious issue on their computer. They went on to say they needed certain codes and passwords to log onto their computer and FIX the problem remotely.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM. After all the trouble we experienced yesterday, beware of what these people are capable of. IF you are to receive such a call, HANG UP ON THEM. 

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe, we have had several calls over the last 2 wks. saying we have computer problems and they wanted to correct them. In fact at the time the wife has been experiencing some problems [amazing].She told the caller our son would correct any problem.They called 4/5 more times and told my wife go f___k herself.

Anonymous said...

There are other computer hacking scams to beware of as well. Free give aways of USB "thumb drives" can infect your computer and can install software that tracks key strokes, etc. Also CDs placed in work places with juicy titles like "salary survey report" can do the same. You can't be too careful when it comes to keeping your electronic information safe.

Anonymous said...

Why do some people get these scams and others don't? Could it be because some are marked as weak minded?

Anonymous said...

I received this call also..just told them I did not own a computer, to which he said he must of gotten the wrong information.

Anonymous said...

The best way not to fall for this type of computer scams is to learn a bit about computers and you'll know when they are lying. Because companies like Microsoft wouldn't call you since if there is an error on a program of their's they can do it remotely as long as there is WiFi also they purposely make errors on there programming so they can get more people to buy there product.

Anonymous said...

also they purposely make errors on there programming so they can get more people to buy there product.

July 11, 2013 at 9:53 PM

that makes no sense