General rule: if someone calls you unsolicited, and asks you for information, a credit card number, personal information, access to your computer, etc., politely tell them you'll call them back through the normal business channels. Any such company is going to have a website (or, in the case of credit card companies calling you with a problem, a customer service number on the back of the card), and if you call them, then you know that the them you are talking to are the them who are with the company.
Anyone who tells you that there's no way to get back to their group through the company switchboard or service desk is doing everything but twirling their mustachios at you where you can't see.
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About time the FTC started getting involved.
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"Hello, I'm definitely not calling from India. Can I take control of your PC?"
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a broad crackdown on scareware scammers accused of using an ancient technology—the telephone—to trick thousands of unsuspecting victims into handing over full access to their Windows PCs. By cold-calling victims and claiming to be from companies like Microsoft, Dell, and McAfee, the scammers directed users to a harmless error log on their computers and told them it was a sign of a serious infection, th…
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