You get a call from someone with a heavy Indian accent saying they are calling from Windows and errors have been detected on your computer. I demurred for a bit, then asked him to send me an email, at which point he put the phone down. Information on how it plays out is here:

 

http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/04/phone-scammers-ca....

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Catharine

Many thanks for the warning ... and the link to the very helpful article.

Microsoft have published some information on their own website to prevent people being taken advantage of by these scammers Read the full info from Microsoft UK here

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