New Style Computer Scam via a Phone Call?

Scam Or Not? 
 
What Happened
 
At 2.26pm, Saturday 7 May 2011, I received an anonymous phone call. 
The caller had an Indian accent and there was lots of background 
(typical-call-centre-type) noise. He was not easy to hear.
 
He represented that he was from Window Operating System technical 
support and was responding to a computer problem that I had 'logged.' 
I said I had not done such a thing and that I regarded his call as 
suspicious and a likely scam.
 
He suggested that I turn my computer on so he could show me how to
fix the problem. At that point, I said that I was almost sure the call was 
a fraud, said 'goodbye' and hung up.

There was no call back.
 
Speculation
 
Perhaps I should've followed the instructions to a certain point, to 
see what happened? I suspect that I would've been asked to download
a patch (or some similar expression), which I would have declined to do.
 
However, had I persisted for a little longer, I may've got a clearer 
idea of the complete modus operandi, to pass on, in an effort to 
forewarn others.
 
Or maybe I should've said I used Linux or had a Mac, to see what
happened?

I expect most on-to-it computer users would not succumb to this
(new?) sort of scam. However . . . .
 
 


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