I just received a phone call on my cell phone, the caller ID was my own phone number. Was curious so I answered it, probably shouldn't have. I don't have a smart phone by the way. The robo voice said it
was microsoft, that my windows license key was going to be deactivated because my IP address had been compromised from several different countries and they needed to set up a new IP address for me. I was then transferred to a person. Couldn't understand them
so hung up. Is any of my information compromised, also concerned that the caller ID on my cell phone was my cell phone number?
Just received this exact call, so I pressed 1 to see what the scam was about. Listened to one person tell me about my comprised IP and license key. Asked him question about what is the IP address and he responded with characters that sounded like a MAC address
only about 10 characters more than are in a MAC. After about 10 minutes with this guy I was told to hold on and was connected to someone that said he was a Microsoft Certified Professional. He started going through different steps to show me how I was compromised.
He asked me to run MSinfo32 which I did. Then I was told to select System Environment then Windows Error reporting. This brought up a list of errors that have occurred on the system mostly related to windows update. He said that these were actual attempts
to get in the system. I asked a bunch a questions to keep him talking and then he ask me to open www.helpmem, at this point I refused and he told me how he can't help me without me doing this. I then told him that this was not gonna happen, which he proceeds
to tell me he is MCP and he is really part of Microsoft. I told he that I am also MCP as well as MCSA and had been doing computer support for 25+ years. He argued that he was legit and he was here to help. At this point I told him I was done with him and to
move on. Still arguing he was from Microsoft I asked for one last favor to please remove my number from the system as I was tried of this scam. He was very upset that I held him on the phone for 20 minutes, so I told him to have a good day and that I would
talk with him again in a few days when they call back.