[Elecraft] OT: Beware

[Fred Jensen]

While OT, still important.  There is a new scam, prevalent on the US 
west coast but might be elsewhere.  You receive a phone call from a 
fast-talking dude who obliquely purports to be from Microsoft.  His 
pitch goes something like, "blah blah this is windows support, we're 
getting error messages from your computer.  Can you get to your computer 
now ... blah ... we can solve it ... it's all very secure ... blah," at 
which point I hung up.  Have now had 3 more of them.

While there's probably no one on this list who would fall for this, it 
might be wise to advise less-technically inclined family members of this 
and to hang up immediately.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org

On 9/3/2013 9:08 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:

> Be safe and be aware, call the phone number on your billing account for
> your ISP before sending email to any requests like that.