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| Area code: | 860 |
| Prefix: | 951 |
| Country: | United States |
| State: | Connecticut |
| City: | Hartford |
| Company: | Southern New England Telephone Co. |
| Usage: | Landline |
| Time zone: | Eastern |
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I received a call from this number, and the caller promptly stated that he was with a tech support that had detected that my computer has a virus on it. I have received a call from a man with a Middle Eastern/Indian accent from this number before, claiming the same issue. I decided to bite, and everything said in the post by George on 10 Mar 2016 was true. I managed to get more information on the culprit:The man claimed to be a contractor for Windows Support. He seemed to claim that he was specifically employed by "Windows support", and that his company was not contracted out by Microsoft (the makers of the Windows OS). I pressed him on the issue, and he reiterated that his company was hired as tech support by the makers of Windows.Anyways, he tried to pull the wool over my head about a virus app called "csrss.exe" in my task manager. He said it was a virus, and urged me to look into this if I did not believe him. A quick wikipedia search found that this program, the Client Server Runtime Process, was necessary to shut down the GUI, and that ending it in the task manager would bring up a prompt saying that "terminating the process *will* result in a system failure".The guy tried to tell me that this app was a virus, because it had caused many programs to stop running, as seen through the task manager. In reality, most of those programs I had stopped, prevented from starting up, or never set up since this is a fresh install of Windows 10.The guy gave me a name and number to double check his credentials, but I hung up before I could get a company name. He said his name was "Jack Williams" (which i kinda doubt is his real name), and gave me the number 516-210-0398 to call to speak to his supervisor. I have not tried contacting his supervisor, but the way he gave his number was odd. He said the last 4 digits (0398) rather quickly, as if he was trying to prevent me from catching it or trying to hide something.
I got a call from this number on 1-6-16. a man with a India accent came on the phone talking about a computer I said I did not have one. Then he kept going at the end of the phone call said he liked me and just wanted to "talk". I hung up then not even 20 minutes later called back to ask why I hung up. Now has called me for the 3rd time just today!
Same thing. From Windows. Have virus. At my computer? Write this stuff down.... phone went dead. Too bad. I guess it being Sunday I was spared of losing my cool today. LOL
They told me they were "getting errors from my computer". I work in IT and immediately told the lady I knew this was a scam and told her if they ever called me again I would report them. Never said the name of the company just said "this is a computer tech". BEWARE!!
2nd time to receive a call from this number. Neither person spoke perfect English. I started fishing questions with second man (trying to be nice). He stated our lap top, with Windows, was sending them messages from daily. Told him he was a fraud and handed off phone to son. He was not so nice to the caller and hung up. They ACTUALLY called us back and advised us they were cancelling our Windows insurance. Jokes on them! Tried to call number back and it is disconnected.
Geek Squad scam. Told the guy what a piece of [***] he is and should be ashamed for trying to scam people. He said "You are!" and hung up.
I have received a few calls from this #, they left no message. I use my iPhone & IPad 99%. I just bought a new iPad. Upon setting it up,Apple security alerted that my Apple account was being accessed in a state I have never been/have no ties to. This was during a time I was changing my bank account to a completely new one, so maybe they couldn't access it &were phishing for new $'sMoral of the story:ensure that you have multilevel passwords on all devices, change the exsisting ones & check for any shady purchases. Luckily I was already doing a financial 'housecleaning' so any purchases would have been denied.It used to be that Apple's were fairly safe from break-in's, but those days are gone. Criminals are getting smarter & scarier every day, & can breach very heavy security.My husbands's mid-size company, who has a personal IT system & security, plus the larger company my mother works for, who has very tight IT/ security were both hit by the same scam. A criminal breached their security & stole 100's of info-rich customer files. They contacted the compaies by e-mail & stated they were holding the files 'randsom' & would return them (lots of good that does, now that they have personal info on 1000's of new hits) for $xxxx. The police became involved but were unable to track their cyber 'footprints' because so many proxy servers, all over the world, were used by the thieves. It was like finding a needle in a haystack hidden anywhere in the world. This was a new scam to me, so hopefully it will encourage other businesses to Talk to their IT & discuss what security measures they have in place.I guess nobody is safe anymore, all we can do is be aware, which can become a daunting & time consuming process. But, being in a small town, I do almost allshopping, etc, online...so I guess that's the price we pay. Be aware, best of luck & Happy 2016 to all!