{"id":9780,"date":"2017-07-20T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T21:12:37","slug":"eventvwr-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=9780","title":{"rendered":"Eventvwr Scam."},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a phone call from someone saying that my PC was reporting a virus.\u00a0 And that he needed me to check it out.\u00a0 He had a very heavy accent and wanted me to type the “eventvwr” command into the PC to check it for viruses.\u00a0 Instead, I typed “eventvwr” into my search engine.\u00a0 It yielded that this was indeed a scam.<\/p>\n

The scammers will try to talk you into giving them money to clean your PC of viruses that never existed.\u00a0 When I pointed out to the callers that he was trying to scam me, the caller hung up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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