A random call from an Indian sounding Shaun Watson, called his company the Windows Service Centre. Knew my name & address which concerned me. I smelled a rat straight away and was pretty fierce with them from the start and asked them to prove themselves.
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Company Name: Log for Help Windows Service Centre Address: 121 KingsWilliam Street Adelaide
Employee ID: 104
I wanted to call them back to verify who they were, he told me to ask for Betty who would put me through to him.
He said he was wanting to upgrade my software, that there were some issues of expired certificates.
He thought I was using Vista (Nope it was XP but I didn't tell him that).
He proceeded to tell me that my certificates needed upgrading and I should check out the issue.
So I humoured him & steered through his instructions taking careful notes.
First was a DOS shell and type in "Assoc"
At the bottom it displayed a CLSID. I got him to read it out and it was correct, which surprised me.
Then asked me to run "certmgr.msc" and view the untrusted certificates.
He then wanted me to grant him access to my computer via http://www.ammyy.com/en/. Hell no!
I kept asking why this was so important, got bumped to at least two different indians (one posing as the Federal Police asking me why I was so rude to them) and then back to the original guy.
He was talking over the top of me and kept asking Do you want my help or not...Yes or No? Whilst not answering his question I dialled (02) 6100 4030 with 1831 in front of the number to block my mobile number. At first the call was answered by an Indian (sounded like someone's residence) then it hung up. This Shaun hung up my call when I had started a conversation with someone a second time and had it on speaker and asked if Shaun could hear the conversation. I persisted and asked for Becky, after two different people "Becky" took my call and said that she couldn't put me through to Shaun, when I got agro she put me through to a guy who said he was Shaun. When I said that he didn't sound like Shaun, he admitted I was talking to a Shane, employee id SW1120 and that Shaun hadn't worked there for some time. He wanted to steer me through the same garbage about the CLSID and the certs as the other and I said I'd been through it. He then said he'd put me onto Nancy, the technician. When I spoke to her she claimed her name was Nancy Smith, even though she sounded like an indian. I asked her what the name of her company, even got her to spell it - Technext. I then asked her for the webaddress and with some delay whilst she had to "find it" told me it was http://www.livewindowssupport.com/ (got her to spell it for me) No office in Adelaide nor Sydney but Dunkeld Victoria and somewhere in the U.S.
I said I'd check out the website and call her back, she was angling for a return number. No way!
What a load of utter bullsh*t! Beware people!

Employee ID 104,


This smells really bad.

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