Just took a call from this number; caller i.d. Payphone. Some guy (strong accent; from India?) named Adam said he's from Star Tech Support, the only authorized company from Microsoft to fix software problems. Said my computer was sending error messages and unless I sat in front of my computer and gave him information my computer would crash. I said i didn't have time right now and if he had a number that I could call him back at. He insisted that I sit in front of my computer. I asked him where he was calling me from. He said Honolulu. When I said that the number on my caller i.d. is not a hawaii area code, he gave some story about calling through a world-wide system. When I insisted that he give me a number I could reach him at, he gave me the runaround until finally he said 307-529-0607. I told him that I don't believe him and that I'd take my chances that my computer would crash. WOW! Glad there's Google for me to punch in his number!
Same thing; 'payphone' on called-id. He knew my name, so they're obviously working from sort of list. Says he's from Microsoft and they've been receiving hundered of error messages sent from my computer; to prove it he got me to verify some long string in some CLSID from the registry.Wow the numbers matched so yes you must be legit. NOT! Total idiot this guy, the way he was arguing with me gave away he obviously didnt work for Microsoft. Asked him where he got my phone number... thats when his story started to fail.. he said that they got it when I registered with MS.. told him I'd never given my phone number. Anyways, suggested he was a scumbag and should get an honest job... he then kind of hung up when I was laughing at him.