Have you been called by these numbers? Do not take it! – Avisa Nordland

Police warn of devious “Microsoft fraudsters.”

Telephone fraud is no new phenomenon, but the methods are becoming increasingly cunning.

The Police Operations Centre in Midtre Hålogaland has received several inquiries from the public about what was apparently calls from ordinary Norwegian phone number, write Nordlys.

– Goodbye!

The person on the other end introduces himself as employee of Microsoft and requesting access to your PC to rectify errors.

Then there is therefore good reason to be wary, warn police:

“If” Microsoft ” calling you and want to access on your PC to rectify errors, then there is not Microsoft, but scammers. Goodbye! “, Reads the call from the police operations center.

Fictional number

The Northern Lights have sat gotten tips about several phone numbers used for so-called” Microsoft-fraud “. Several of them are registered as not in use.

As Manager previously discussed, sitting happily telephone fraudsters call centers abroad and rings with fictitious numbers.

– They sit happily on a call center as India. The phone is set over so that it looks as if they are calling from the United States, England or Norway. Often this is people who have this as a regular job. It is not even certain that they know they are involved in fraud, says Anne Dybos in Økokrim, who is an expert on this type of fraud, the online newspaper.