{"id":55,"date":"2014-06-14T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-06-14T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:07:46","slug":"someone-called-pretending-to-be-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/someone-called-pretending-to-be-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Called Pretending To Be Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Computer-Scam-Alert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Computer-Scam-Alert.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Scam Alert\" width=\"341\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>A customer came in and told me that Microsoft had just called him.\u00a0 This Microsoft employee told him they had been monitoring his computer and that he had a lot of\u00a0malware and they needed to log in and repair his computer.\u00a0 They directed him to a certain website and instructed him to click on something\u00a0in the website.\u00a0 At this point my customer became suspicious and started asking questions.\u00a0 The scammer sensed\u00a0my customer&#8217;s hesitation and told him he could speak to his supervisor if he decided to call back and get the &#8220;repair&#8221; done.\u00a0 He gave him a phone number to call.<\/p>\n<p>This is a scam and I&#8217;m hearing this story, or something similar, nearly every day.\u00a0 No one from Microsoft, or any other company for that matter, is monitoring your computer.\u00a0 No legitimate company\u00a0will ever call you and ask to remote into your computer in order to repair it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had several customers who let the cybercriminals remote into their computer.\u00a0 Remember, anyone who\u00a0logs into your computer has access to all of your computer files and can steal your information.\u00a0 They can also install malware that gives them remote access into your computer anytime they want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer came in and told me that Microsoft had just called him.\u00a0 This Microsoft employee told him they had been monitoring his computer and that he had a lot of\u00a0malware and they needed to log in and repair his computer.\u00a0 They directed him to a certain website and instructed him to click on something\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}