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Special Forums Cybersecurity Fake MicroSoft calls Post 303011376 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 17th of January 2018 01:39:29 PM

01-17-2018

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Hi R�diger,
As far as I know, accepting the call (by VoIP, land line, or cell phone) shouldn't pose any threat.

What they want you to do is to allow them to remotely login to your PC and "fix" your machine for you. That is so obviously a security threat that I'm surprised anyone falls for it, but I'm sure enough people do that it pays them to call me at least once a month hoping I'll fall for it that day. (Even though I don't have any systems in my house running a Windows OS, and it is impossible to follow their directions to give them remote access.)

Cheers,
Don

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phones(4)							   File Formats 							 phones(4)

NAME

       phones - remote host phone number database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/phones

DESCRIPTION

       The  file /etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone numbers for the tip(1) program. /etc/phones is normally unreadable, and so may
       contain privileged information.	The format of /etc/phones is a series of lines of the form:

       <system-name>[ 	]*<phone-number>.

       The system name is one of those defined in the remote(4) file and the phone number is constructed from [0123456789-=*%]. The  `='  and  `*'
       characters  are	indicators  to	the auto call units to pause and wait for a second dial tone (when going through an exchange).	The `=' is
       required by the DF02-AC and the `*' is required by the BIZCOMP 1030.

       Comment lines are lines containing a `#' sign in the first column of the line.

       Only one phone number per line is permitted. However, if more than one line in the file contains the same system name tip(1)  will  attempt
       to dial each one in turn, until it establishes a connection.

FILES

       /etc/phones

SEE ALSO

       tip(1), remote(4)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Jan 1992 							 phones(4)