Strange Call from "Microsoft" -- name needed?

Fri Feb 10 13:06:50 UTC 2012

There's a similar scam that tries to get you to use a VOIP service to 'socially engineer' you. It's called vishing. I imagine that's what you were looking for. It has a Wikipedia entry.

Geoff

Geoffrey Nathan
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+1 313 577-1259Sent from my PreOn Feb 9, 2012 8:19 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote: 

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At 2/8/2012 09:49 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:

>Joel: If there is a short clever name for this type of scam it does

>not show up in a quick search. Here are some of the names I found that

>are being used to label this ruse:

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>Fake tech support virus phone scam

>Microsoft Impersonation Scam

>Virus phone scam

>Fake Virus Phone Scam

>Computer Virus Phone Scam

These don't really roll off the tongue.  I was hoping for something pithy.

Joel

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