individual with what he thought was an English accent called wanting to speak to the doctor and no one but him, When we put the doc on the phone this man started in about how their company in the UK wanted to pay him to do surveys...um...no. When he was told that the call will be reported to the local and federal agencies because they tried to run a scam on a professional office. the man hung up..oh well no scams here.
Got a call from Internet Service Management on this number saying my computer was leaking garbage onto the "local network" slowing down others. I replied that if there was such a problem, my ISP Bell should contact me. He, with a disguised Indian accent, hung up. That's OK, he saved me the trouble of hanging up myself.
To Claire: It looks like they have no qualms about simply hanging up when they no longer have use for you. I believe this gives you the moral authority to do the same when you get their calls. Surely they will tire and hound someone else.
I had a lot of fun today! I had a call from a lady that introduced herself as JANE PARKER calling from the Toronto's company INTERNET SERVER MANAGEMENT. She was saying that my windows was leaking personal information and that in the past days I was supposed to see on the bottom right corner of the screen some warning notices sent by my provider. She claimed that she would have been able to check and set things for me. It has been tough for me to not start laughing so I played the game for a little while making a good number of questions but she's never been able to answer correctly (including who is my internet provider) Apparently I know computer much more that her! When she finally realized that she had no chances, she tryed to threat me saying that I will lose my identity...at that point I could not keep my laughter anymore and I told her that I don't even have windows but Mac...well, she hung up. BTW the number that appeared on my caller ID was 4 203 372 0399
BEWARE OF THOSE PEOPLE. DON'T FALL ON THAT SH*T
Got the same CRAP from "INTERNET SERVER MANAGEMENT", I asked if they could confirm what my IP address was, they said 192.168.0. whatever (I stopped them before they ended). I told them that this was a LOCAL IP address, and asked them again what was my Internet IP address, or else, how would they know I "leak" spam ... They argued and I said that 192.168. is non-routable on the Internet, etc. , so they said something lame that I could not comprehend in their foreign accent and ended by saying they did not want to talk to me anymore. HAHAHAHAHAH
J'ai reçu leur appel aujourd'hui et il m'a expliqué que mon ordinateur laissait échapper mes mots-de-passe et des renseignements personnels. Je leur ai répondu que j'ai un excellent antivirus et lui ai demandé de ne plus me rappeler. Il avait un de ces accents bizarre en anglais que j'avais bien de la difficulté à comprendre.