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Thought some of you might be interested to hear of my experience this morning.
Received a phone call - number withheld - and am on Telephone Preference Service, as well as being ex-directory. The person on the other end of the end had a distinctly foreign accent and started to tell me (not very well, his English wasn't that good!) that my computer had become infected and needed some attention. I asked him how he knew this and he mumbled something about my ISP - at least, I think that was he said. He also said that if I gave him my computer details he would demonstrate what he meant - as if! I informed him, quite assertively (!), that I wanted to know his name, his company name and a telephone number so that I could check with my ISP and then would ring him back. He put the phone down without any further dialogue!
I did ring my ISP who confirmed that it definitely wasn't them - not that I ever thought it was - and that I had done exactly the right thing.
Not sure whether anyone on here has any previous experience of this - I know I am stating the blindingly obvious, as I am sure that none of you would give out details to any random person - but I thought it might be as well to draw attention to it.
And apologies if everyone else has already dealt with a similar issue - I always was a late developer!
Received a phone call - number withheld - and am on Telephone Preference Service, as well as being ex-directory. The person on the other end of the end had a distinctly foreign accent and started to tell me (not very well, his English wasn't that good!) that my computer had become infected and needed some attention. I asked him how he knew this and he mumbled something about my ISP - at least, I think that was he said. He also said that if I gave him my computer details he would demonstrate what he meant - as if! I informed him, quite assertively (!), that I wanted to know his name, his company name and a telephone number so that I could check with my ISP and then would ring him back. He put the phone down without any further dialogue!
I did ring my ISP who confirmed that it definitely wasn't them - not that I ever thought it was - and that I had done exactly the right thing.
Not sure whether anyone on here has any previous experience of this - I know I am stating the blindingly obvious, as I am sure that none of you would give out details to any random person - but I thought it might be as well to draw attention to it.
And apologies if everyone else has already dealt with a similar issue - I always was a late developer!
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