Several times, recently, I have had a telephone caller using poor
English trying to persuade me to go through a 10 minute series of tests
on my home computer.

He purports to represent the Windows maintenance team and have got my
phone number from Microsoft! The lure is that my m/c may have been
infected with something nasty.

I assume this is some sort of phishing scam but am I alone or is this a
common event? Presumably my service provider would be involved if this
m/c had been infected?

Also, his last call has not disconnected or our phone line is
coincidentally out of order!

regards
--
Tim Lamb