Received this call at work...have answered in the past but they always hung up. This time a female with a heavy Indian accent asked for me by ~almost my name then followed with "As an IT professional you're entitled to xxxxx free xxxx seminars xxxxxx the next is at xxxxx and lasts 16 minutes xxxxxx"
The xxxxx approximates words I couldn't understand. I told her I wasn't interested and she thanked me and hung up.
Got a call at 8am on May 20. Called them back. It's a telemarketing company for different companies. And they will be calling back. I'm goint to block their number with google voice. They will hear the number beeing disconnected. To get it, just sign up to be notified or search the web for blogs where someone will give an invite to you. Or open your own blog.
I also have received a number of calls from 201-338-6189 on my cell. I have not answered and no message was left. Looking at the above posts, the caller made no successful contacts that resulted in any type of sale. Using a 'follow the money' strategy:
The content of the call was often unintelligible or the caller hung up. Few successful companies would pay for this type of incompetent marketing work. The only party to get any benefit from the calls was the cell provider -- uses up minutes during daytime hours. Is there any chance that the caller is sponsored by the cell provider to boost cell minutes?
This number called me today. They claimed to be calling about an error report that I sent microsoft. They claimed all this stuff about my computer having a virus and it running slow blah blah, and they wanted me to sign up for their remote support company. They called it virtual support and it has it's own website and everything...however my virus software told me that it was not a trusted site so I stopped what I was doing...said he was from the states...very sketchy
Telephone scam re: anti-virus software trying to weasel something out of my mother. I assume they wanted her to buy something, but one way or another, it's irritating. Found this as a rough example of the scam:
SCAMwatch has heard several variations of this scam, but generally the caller will claim they suspect your computer is infected and that they need remote access to check. If you allow them access, they will then pretend to run a scan and report that your computer is infected. The caller will then try to convince you to purchase anti-virus software straight away to remove the infection. The fee may be a one-off payment or an ongoing subscription.