Click for a fix ? I don't think so matey

Looks like the imposters and scammers pretending to be Microsoft are still at it.
They rang one of my team this Thursday, to keep him anonymous lets call him "Dave"...

Anyway they went through their usual story that they were calling on behalf of Microsoft and that he had lots of PC errors and they would fix them.
Dave led them on a bit and asked them who they were - they then told him they were a company called "clickandfix" - now then, before anyone starts emailing this company and given them a piece of their mind I need to point out this company has posted a message on their home page advising that people are posing as them in and attempt to extort money from you.

The bottom line is it's not that company at fault, someone has pulled their name from the internet and is using it illegally to attempt to rob you of your money.

So they were giving Dave all the jargon and asking him to look at all the errors he had and telling him they could fix it. He then told them he knew it was a scam and they were trying to rob people of their money, they carried on talking so he then told them he was a Microsoft certified professional so he knew they were talking bollocks.

Eventually they put the phone down and left him in peace.
A short while later the little fuckers rang him back, a new person said "Oh so your the person who thinks he's a Microsoft expert are you ?"

The cheeky fuckers had the nerve to ring him back and have an argument with him !

He ran through some of the things I put earlier in my blog...

How have they tied your IP address to your phone number and details ?
Who gave them your information (they said Microsoft - this is a lie as it is in contravention to data protection act and lots of other laws) ?
How have they been gathering data about your computers errors without your permission ?
Why have they called your phone in contravention to the TPS ruling ?
Why are they idiots ?

Actually I made the last one up.

Ask yourself though, if someone called you up and pretended to be your bank and asked you for your credit card details would you give them ?
If someone calls up and pretends to be Microsoft or anyone else why would you give your details then ?

The best advice is to tell them they are a bunch of fuckers because you run Linux so they are thieving twats, tell them to fuck off and put the phone down.

I think it fair to say we're trying to track them in more detail so we can shop them to Microsoft - I'm sure their lawyers will be more than happy to have a chat with them ?