@AC
"I wonder where the scammers got hold of their client telephone numbers from in the first place."
And I wonder how long it'll take those scammers to use this situation to their advantage.
"Hello, im with talktalk. u got problems with teamviewer right now? yeah, we know, but we got fix for u. you just need to run as root and all will be good. u dont have root? np, we soon will!"