Person with strong accent asked if he was talking with some name, not mine. I said it was a wrong number and then he wanted to talk with the person responsible for my computer. He said that he had been affected by some type of very serious problem, and implied he was calling from Microsoft. He asked me to turn on my computer, at which point I told him not to call again and hung up. I've received one more call that I did not answer.
Got a call at my work and on my cell phone. I let the call go to VM on cell. Thick Indian accent claiming I took out a payday loan. Nope, I did not do such a thing. Then they called my work. I put them on hold for 10 minutes at work. Finally, they hung up but called back. One of my co-workers told them I was fired for too many personal calls...
They said that they were from Walmart SuperCenter and I told them to remove my number from their database as they were calling my cellphone. He did have a very strong foreign accent and didn't seem to understand my request. We shall see!
Had a call on July 28th 2010 from this number, the same spiel as a lot of you have reported: man with a heavy Indian accent telling me I've won a $200 Walmart card and a $25 gas card. I've gotten calls like this before from numbers with a blocked caller ID, but this was the first time I've had this scam come from an identifiable number. In a previous phone call I tried to get the guy to tell me how he'd gotten my number, and he said it came from their [imaginary] Records Department and that he didn't know, so I told him to go ask them and I'd wait until he let me know, but as expected he mostly ignored my query and went on with his spiel.
I actually hope they call again, this time I'll try to string them along as long as possible to waste their time and have a little fun! Maybe along the lines of "Oh yes, I'd love to give you my credit card information, let me go get it..." and just put the phone down.
Called today. Didn't recognize name (New Jersey) or number so let it go to voice mail. Operating saying to hold for next operator, then some foreign man comes on and says Alisha, Alisha, Alisha, then hangs up. Who are these fools and why can't someone make them stop calling me?