A male with a foreign accent called me from 314-555-0119 on 12/23/2014 at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET. He said he was from Windows support and that they were receiving messages from my computer that an unauthorized person was trying to access my system. I asked how he expected me to know that he was who he said he was since I had not contacted anyone for support. He said that he had the license number of my computer and that he could walk me through finding this to help verify what he said (like I would do this).
I asked him for a number to call the support center back. He gave me 800-646-5809. When I did a search for this number on Bing, it came back with the message "Some results have been removed."
NOTE: This person sounded exactly like someone who has called some time back, but I can't be certain about this. I told him then that I was not interested in anything he was trying to sell. I told him that my number is on the National Do Not Call Registry and to please not call here again, but like I wrote, I'm not 100 percent positive it was the same person.
I have submitted an initial report to Microsoft about this call.
[***] all these WINDOWS scammers. I went MAC in 2006 and have never gone back to WINDOWS and I never will. This dumb [***] with the Indian accent told me they received a message from my PC ( I have a MAC not a PC) that it was infected with several viruses and unauthorized people were try to gain access. I played along with this [***] as he said he needed to get access to my PC by having me allow some software to load, so he could remotely take control of my PC to remove the viruses and block unauthorized users from my PC. (Like that is going to happen)
I asked this dip [***] if her knew what my name was, which he didn't. I told him my name was, DICK JACKMAN. I provided him with a fake SS#, fake bank account # and fake PIN# and then offered to provide him with all my fake credit card #'s. This ding dong took all the fake info, which frustrated him, since it was fake and he HAD NO ACCESS TO [***]!
You would have to be a stupid as a house plant to fall for this [***] scam. If you are then you deserved it. Eliminate the chance of being a victim by simply switching to MAC. 2006 through 2015 and not one issue in regards, to hacks, spammers, or phising. I have two i-Macs, 2 MacBook Pro's, one 1-Pad and two iPhones. In 9 years of use, one had drive failed and was replaced with a large one by APPLE and one track pad on a MacBook Pro failed and was repaired at an APPLE STORE. Try finding a WINDOS STORE.