Thanks for the post. It is to the letter of what happened to my elderly parents. They gave no credit card or banking info but completely lost everything on their computer, drivers and all. It was taken over by remote desktop and they lost everything. I live out of town and told them to immediately go to my sister's house next door and log in to all their accounts and change their passwords. They called their bank to place an alert as well as ebay and paypal. Just hope they acted soon enough. Scary!
3/18/2013 6:53 pm Pacific time. Received a call from 201-155-2012, Country: USA, Location: New Jersey (Bayonne, Jersey City, Union City . Male caller spoke English with Indian/Pakistani accent. Said he was calling from Microsoft in Washington State because the "root certificate of my computer was about to expire".
I told him I would contact Microsoft during normal business hours and he hung up. Suspect this is a scam to obtain personal information.
Got call from this number today. I didn't answer and they didn't leave a message. I guessed it would be a scam and people on this site verified that. First call from this number but I'm guessing I will get more. ID said: Name Unavailable.
this dumb [***] keeps calling me and this last time he got really nasty and started yelling at me. Threatened to call the police he screamed go ahead. So now that i know it is a scam I really am going to mess with him. You want to mess with me and mine I am not the one to play with. If they call agan are they in for some fun...:)
Just went thru the same thing as with other posts. Just posting this to time stamp the date of occurence so everyone knows he is still doing this. I told him he was full of it and hung up.
just called me... same scenario as all others. same indian accent - he seemed hesitant at the beginning. I laughed at him and told him he was incorrect and that I have a mac