The International Routing System scam
It appears that a number of people have received calls from someone claiming to be from the International Routing System. This company does not exist, and the caller is trying to scam you into either installing infected software, or else to give them your credit card details.
Either put the phone down immediately, or else laugh at every statement they make as it is pure fiction.
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August 16, 2010
,Douglas says:I just got a telephone call from someone desperately trying to get me to go to a certain web page because my computer was infected. He said that he represented microsoft and that the information was from the International Routing System. I did a quick internet search on the International Routing System, and found your article before I went to the webpage he referenced. Thankfully.
August 17, 2010
,Richard Folwell says:I just had one of those too. The first caller was struggling a bit with basics, and his supervisor took over. Somewhat intrigued, I followed instructions until it got to the bit where we were looking at the Application area of the Event Viewer, and he said that all of the entries there indicated that I had a virus infection! (This was without even asking for the content of a few samples.)
Suffice it to say that the call ended very shortly after that.
This is worrying, many users would be completely taken in by this dangerous nonsense.
Richard