"I'm a Microsoft Engineer and you have a problem with your computer"

4/27/2012

I guess we're not the only people to be plagued by calls of this kind. A few weeks ago we were getting a constant stream of them. Asking the caller for his Microsoft payroll number seemed to make them hang up. The upshot is that, if you're gullible enough to do what they ask, you put your computer and possibly home network at risk.

The WIndows Secrets newsletter recently ran an article on this, at http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/141855-Hoax-calls-from-quot-Microsoft-quot. I particularly liked the photo of one of the call centre staff responsible.

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Peter Wiles

Peter has been writing software since going up to Manchester University in 1965, the first year that the University offered Computer Science as a B.Sc course. After gaining a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science, he joined the British company ICL (later renamed Fujitsu Services) and worked there for 36 years, initially as a designer working on the development of the VME mainframe operating system. Later years were spent as a Systems Architect specialising in large Government and private sector customers including the DTI, European Commission, MAV (Hungarian Railways), the UK Post Office and HM Revenue & Customs. He retired from Fujitsu in 2007 and has devoted much of his time since to developing software for his own use and, more recently, to make available via the Android marketplace. Some of this software is aimed at supporting his other principal interest, sailing and maintaining his Westerly Seahawk yacht which he has recently moved to Troon in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

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