{"id":1131,"date":"2022-02-16T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itc-lucke.com\/call-from-microsoft-scam-beware\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:41:35","slug":"call-from-microsoft-scam-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itc-lucke.com\/en\/call-from-microsoft-scam-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Call from Microsoft &#8211; SCAM &#8211; Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kzpf9t8u-386f31273364e2b0a6d64c4588e4c456\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kzpf9t8u-386f31273364e2b0a6d64c4588e4c456{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kzpf9t8u-386f31273364e2b0a6d64c4588e4c456 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kzpf9t8u-386f31273364e2b0a6d64c4588e4c456 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kzpf9t8u-386f31273364e2b0a6d64c4588e4c456 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Beware of alleged calls from Microsoft!<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kzpfc755-2bc90099c3e1427f3e1b41b94a2d96c8 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Old hat, actually:<\/p>\n<p>Someone calls and says they are from Microsoft and would help you clean your PC. In reality, a remote maintenance is set up, the criminal counterpart encrypts your PC and thus wants to extort a &#8220;ransom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn't have a prepared Windows VM, I would have liked to take the game to the end and show him that after a reboot and a ZFS snapshot, everything is fine again.<\/p>\n<p>But I recorded it:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='avia-video av-kzpfd2kl-7bb435bfee7d2b5b0867c819cd6a4eea avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/Uy1xcOusvLE'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vorsicht: Microsoft angeblich am Telefon: Ihr PC ist gehackt?! 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