Beware 0203 2907142 Microsoft Phone Scam

I had a phone call today from someone claiming to be from Microsoft, the phone display the number as 'unknown', which was a bit suspicious. The person did not speak very good english and said something about the phone call was about hackers of your Windows operating system. I explained that we did not use Windows, which he did not understand at first. I asked him for his telephone number and he said it was 0203 2907142.

I told him again that we did not use Windows, then he decided to hangup.

This was clearly some sort of scam to try to get me to go onto my Windows PC and then the caller would have most likely have gained access and then I would have been in real trouble.

Be careful, do not give any information to anyone claiming to be from a company that would like access to your PC.

Hopefully countries and governments will get together and seriously punish these criminals, not sure where the money goes to from these scumbag scammers, but it would not surprise me if it did not end up in serious criminals and terrorist bank accounts.