Scam warning

I got a fake "Microsoft Seccurity Alert" with a voice telling me not to switch off my computer but to phone **REMOVED**.

The computer was locked up so could not click on anyhing.

I DID NOT PHONE THE NUMBER>



I was suspicious so phoned a friemd and asked them to enter this telephone number into the "Who called me" website.

Reports indicated this was SCAM.

So pressed Ctrk-Alt-Delete to access Task Manager and selected 'Sign out'

This returned me to the Windows opening page.

I then ran Malwarebytes to check for a virus - there weren't any.



I hope tis helps other victim

geoffL said:

I hope tis helps other victim

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First, here's ten points for filling out your computer specs.

Second, pretty good method for dealing with that scam.

Third... start using 3rd party backup software !! Sometimes signing out or even rebooting won't fix a locked computer.
For that you need 3rd party backup software.



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geoffL said:

I got a fake "Microsoft Seccurity Alert" with a voice telling me not to switch off my computer but to phone **REMOVED**.

The computer was locked up so could not click on anyhing.

I DID NOT PHONE THE NUMBER>

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I ran into the same thing twice last week, when I was looking through stuff on Facebook. I didn't click on anything or call any phone number. It pops up and takes over the entire screen, and tells you not to switch off your computer. The first time I switched off my computer and then rebooted. I didn't see any issue when the computer came back up. The second time, also on Facebook a few days later, I also switched off the computer and rebooted. But when I restarted Chrome, it indicated the it was shut down improperly and wanted to restore all my tabs. I said OK and got the same alert screen. Again, I shut off my computer and rebooted, but this time I didn't allow Chrome to restore anything. I then went through Chrome's history and manually restored individual tabs, skipping the Facebook link. I haven't seen any issues since then. I also stopped browsing through Facebook.