Teamviewer scam - beware

Hi joel5 and welcome to Seven Forums. It seems to be quite a common scam in the UK at the moment. I get about one call like that a month.

I think this game is being played all over the world. Just follow the basic principles - if it's too good to be true then hang up. MS won't phone you on a matter of customer care.

it gets worse, thank goodness this person had come to one of my seminars and remembered what I said or she would have been in big trouble, she called me and told me what happened
She received a phone call claiming it was Microsoft. The person told her that he works for MS and he needs to get onto her computer because MS found that she is infected big time with trojans.
He told her to go to a particular website and download Teamviewer and he would walk her through installing it so he could go onto her computer and fix her.
I had just given a seminar and talked about this at the library I gave it in.
So she told Micrososft - cough cough- that she could not do it now and to call back another day- He was very presistant but she again said not now.
Then she called me.
I told her when he calls back, to tell him that Micrososft does not do this and would not even know she had trojans, and if he did not stop bothering her she would report him to the FCC- at that point he hung up.

I actually got a phone call like this and when he got on I told him that is impossible because I do not own a computer- then I heard a "Click" and he was gone, I never heard from him again, what is worse they get dummy telephone numbers so you cannot trace it.

I have been telling my clients to do exactly the same thing, tell them you do not own a pc, this way they will stop calling you.

what you just describe is exactly how these people lured me in until they told me to open
run window and type **REMOVED** now,feel like an idiot

It's more fun if you have the time to handle them like John. Pretend you're a total computer noob for 20-30 minutes then tell them you have a Mac.

Hi rcr7,

Please edit your post and remove the link to the site the scammer provided. I'll let the admins know about a potential threat and they might do it before you read this.

Unless, of course you're part of the scam, then you'll be banned.

rcr7 said:

what you just describe is exactly how these people lured me in until they told me to open
run window and type ***LINK REMOVED*** now,feel like an idiot

Britton30 said:

It's more fun if you have the time to handle them like John. Pretend you're a total computer noob for 20-30 minutes then tell them you have a Mac.

Yes. I did exactly that. After I told him what fun it had all been he swore at me. I wonder why.