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investigating probable scam - livetechoncall.com got a call today from someone at this number 917-732-1559 - who told me that my computer was generating 100s of errors and full of malware. I use malwarebytes as well as another antivirus program PLUS i just rebuilt this machine so... I'm doubtful that my computer is doing anything of the sort. Regardless, I figured I'd let it play out and see what it was they wanted me to do... i had heard my mother-in-law get scammed in similar fashion and so wanted to see what they'd try to do to lure me in. First off, he properly guessed my OS and guessed that i was using a certain antivirus product. Also, they had an email address that i commonly use as well as one of my phone numbers. The interesting thing though is that the phone number is unlisted and i don't usually associate the particular number with the email address they have on file. I'll need to do some digging through my records to see when I ever linked the 2 to see if i can narrow down either who was hacked or who may have sold my private info. Anyway - he had me use the windows key + R (to launch the run menu) and type in the event viewer command line. He walked me through how to view my event log (something i'm actually quite familiar with). He said that errors were abnormal and blah blah blah. having worked with windows for... ever i said "uh, this is actually quite common." he begged to differ and I let him continue. All of this took about 15 - 20 minutes because i started asking him how he got my phone number and how he got my email address. He assured me that he got it from Microsoft when i registered my computer. HA! i don't do that at least not in that fashion and not with this particular phone number. he kept telling me that they had all my computer details but could not confirm my IP address. Next he started to tell me how to launch MSCONFIG and I got a bit fed up with the charade and asked him what he was selling. He told me "nothing" a