I have had a disturbing call from an old friend of my parents who have been hit by a scam.
The scam goes like this, a person claiming to be from Microsoft calls and claims there is a security issue with your PC and asks you to do a few things at the command prompt then transfers you to a technician who asks for credit card details, that is when he put the phone down, however they have screwed up his PC and I am about to go out to fix it, it appears they target older members of the public praying on their ignorance.
Please pass this on
.