A local IT Consultant says he's fed up with thieves taking advantage of Oklahomans. Fox 25's Kisha Henry was there as he took on the hackers first-hand.

"The voice had a heavy accent and was difficult to understand," says Carol Wedel, referring to a recent phone call. Wedel says she's received three phone calls in the past week from hackers in West Bengal, India. "He said, 'Well, your computer is vulnerable to being hacked.. and it will crash.' He expressed urgency and he said the problem was serious. He said their central server was receiving error messages from my computer." Thankfully, Wedel hung up and called her IT Consultant, Dave Moore.

"There was nothing wrong with Carol's computer. There was getting ready to be something wrong with her computer if she had given the bad guys control of it," says Moore.

Moore says he's received numerous phone calls in just the past week, from customers who say someone from the Microsoft Windows Technical Team called them. After doing some research, Moore found the hackers are operating under a company called TECHEPC and

Moore decided to give them a call, and give them a taste of their own medicine. Someone immediately picked up, but told him a technician would call him back in two minutes. Less than a minute later, the "technician" called back.

Using an alias, Moore played along with the hacker, who asked him to type in some commands. "Press the flag key with one of your fingers," said the hacker. Just as Moore said they would, they directed him to one of the many websites that allows you to download a program, which allows another computer to gain remote access to yours. Moore says it's a common practice among IT Consultants, to help customers who are not tech-savvy.

Once, the hacker gained remote access to Moore's computer, he opened up Moore's Window's Log File, and pointed to numerous "error messages;" the same thing they did to Wedel.

"Error messages are quite common. Most all of the error messages are harmless. They don't mean that your computer has been hacked, or that it has a virus, or that there's really anything wrong," says Moore. But, many computer users don't know this, so they fall victim to the scam.

"Once they (gain remote access to your computer), they can actually put a real virus in the computer and go, 'Aha! Look, a virus! For only $49.95, we'll fix it for you!'" says Moore.

The suspicious hacker then tried to access Moore's webcam, to see what Moore was doing. Moore quickly covered the webcam with a piece of paper and told the hacker his webcam was broken. Realizing the webcam was not going to work, the hacker then searched Moore's files for a picture of Moore, meanwhile explaining that he would fix all of the computer's problems. During the process, numerous warning messages popped up-- warning Moore that the web addresses the hacker was visiting were dangerous-- including the hacker's main webpage.

After a lengthy phone call, the hacker offered to fix Moore's problem for nearly $200.00. The hacker asked Moore to type his credit card information into a fake Western Union webpage. Still using his alias, Moore gave the hacker everything he wanted: two credit card numbers, along with expiration dates, etc. The hacker then asked if Moore had a limit on either of the credit cards, before quickly ending the phone call. "Ok, bye-bye! Thanks for the business," he told Moore.

After the call ended, the hacker was still in control of Moore's computer, so Moore shut it down. When he started it back up, he realized the hacker had installed a password app to keep Moore locked out of his own computer. Little did the hacker know, Moore is an IT Consultant who could quickly repair the computer back to its original form, and the two credit card numbers Moore gave him were fake.

Fox 25 contacted TECHEPC. They told Fox 25's Kisha Henry they were located in Hawaii. When she told them they were lying, they admitted to being in West Bengal, India. They declined to give a comment, but did say they are not scamming people.

"Do a little detective work. It's not hard to do, and you'll save yourself a lot of grief in the long run," says Moore. "Be suspicious of everything."