The recent post about the Bluebird Virus scam has generated lots of interest and has become one of the most popular articles on Scotia Systems over the last few days.
What’s interesting looking at the analytics is the distribution of the post readers:
As you can see, the UK seems to be the worst hit, but the scam appears to be also targeting Canada and the US.
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What’s evident here is that the company phoning up is also claiming to be from Microsoft!
If you receive a call from a company either claiming to be from Microsoft, or calling themselves PC Masters – and they tell you that your PC is infected, hang up. They’re trying to gain access to your PC and charge you for it!
If you have any other details to pass on regarding the scam, please leave a comment and we’ll investigate further.
Asian male phoned me at 1950 this evening. Saying he was from PC Masters and represented Microsoft. Said my computer had the bluebird virus. Asked me to log on and he would take me through it. Asked where he was calling from, said Luton in Bedfordshire. I put the phone down!
Male with a heavy accent called last night claiming to be from Microsoft, asking me to check my event log for a virus. Call came in as unknown number long distance. I talked to persons at my work and 4 others had received the same call in the bast 10 days. This is a great risk for older or inexperienced computer users who just may believe.
I recieved a call from these people Im in Nova scotia. Cant believe i fell for it.
Hopefully they do not have any infor
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