Prefectceh?? Was it microsoft who phoned me?

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Hi,
I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with xp
and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose everything.
Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to run
and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came up
on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
matter. Is there a problem with XP?
Thanks in advance
 
kel said:
Hi,
I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with
xp
and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose
everything.
Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to
run
and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came
up
on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
matter. Is there a problem with XP?
Thanks in advance
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Forget it. Microsoft do not send EMails to people and they do not telephone
people. It's probably some would-be burglar trying to work out if you're
home or not.
 
From: "kel" <[email protected]>

| Hi,
| I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
| alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with xp
| and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose everything.
| Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to run
| and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came up
| on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
| microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
| matter. Is there a problem with XP?
| Thanks in advance

Please do NOT Multi-Post.
Please learn to Cross-Post to pertinent, On Topic, news groups instead.

Did you give Microsoft your phone number ?
Did you see microsoft on your Caller ID ?

Do you think Microsoft is going to call Millions of people - personally ?
 
Hi,
I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with xp
and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose everything.
Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to run
and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came up
on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
matter. Is there a problem with XP?
Thanks in advance
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If you've been working with a MS tech and provided them with your
contact info, there is a reasonable chance that the call is/was legit -
I've talked with many real MS support people over the years, but the
conversation was always initiated by calling MS Support numbers and then
calling me back as needed.

If you did not initiate a support call then you were scammed.
 
You've been scammed. Possibly by "friend" who is messing with your head.

: Hi,
: I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
: alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with
xp
: and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose
everything.
: Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to
run
: and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came
up
: on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
: microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
: matter. Is there a problem with XP?
: Thanks in advance
 
kel said:
Hi,
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<snip - MULTI-posted message>

Learn to cross-post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

A point not made is that N multi-posted copies will consume N times the disk
space for each of the separate copies of the same post. Cross-posted
messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in the newsgroups
back to the same single copy. Multi-posting wastes disk space on the
server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you consume N times
the space on one server and then do so again on all the newsgroups servers
worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies of your multi-posted
message distributed to all the newsgroups servers worldwide. Cross-posting
has just one copy of the message on an NNTP server, and only one copy gets
propagated to other NNTP servers.

To those visiting the newsgroups, cross-posting helps them see ALL the
replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked your
post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar replies.

Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider
cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your post.
The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related, the less
accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the included groups
may already be encompassed by an included parent group. If they are
subgroups under a topic, choose whether you will be specific or general in
the targeted groups to which you post. Usenet-ignorants that shotgun their
posts across multiple groups trying to capture as large an audience as
possible will offend netizens with the poor aim. Multi-posting instead of
cross-posting when shotgunning across multiple groups evidences you as a
newbie, troll, or spammer.
 
kel said:
Hi,
I just had a call from someone claiming to be microsoft getting me to type
alot of stuff into my computer. They told me that there is a problem with xp
and if i didnt fix it my computer would crash and i would loose everything.
Once it crashes there is no way for them to fix it. They told me to go to run
and type in Prefetceh. I am a little concerned about this call as it came up
on my phone as overseas and it is out of business hours for me to contact
microsoft direct. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated in this
matter. Is there a problem with XP?
Thanks in advance
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It's a scam. MS *never* initiates support calls.
Surely you did *not* tell the scammer that you were overseas, correct ?
If you did then contact your local police force ASAP and tell them your
dwelling has been robbed.


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