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Beginners be wary
I was almost caught just yesterday after getting a non genuine message come up on a cloned drive I thought I would call Microsoft.
So after a Google I ended up with a free 1800 number and into the lap of logmein123 which I went along with until the request for money came along. That is when I began to smell a rat. I got out of the login and only to find my docs gone taskbar empty and the non genuine pop up message gone, in fact the machine was in such a shambles I reinstalled to make sure I got rid of all traces of tha call and hook up.
So I did another Google and low and behold the actual Microsoft support phone site was a four digit number 13 20 58 to be exact (Australia) not the ten digit number I had mistakenly took as what I wanted.
I should have been a little more vigilant as I do remember discussing an activation issue while in the UK with my brothers machine but fortunately pulled up short of paying money.
So beginners beware!!