they now have girls working the lines. I have received 4 calls in last few weeks. wish there was something that could be done to these con artists. tell them you are filing a police report and they quickly hang up. funny how that works.
Vandaag werd ik gebeld, evenals gisteren, evenals meerdere keren ervoor. Steeds een ander. Soms een man, soms een vrouw.Altijd Engels sprekend. Altijd de vraag naar de computer. Er zou iets mis mee zijn.
Soms dwingend: is de computer aan? Nee, ik doe hem nu uit. No,no, no.Go to your computer etc. etc.
WOW! These guys have brass. Have gotten four calls in last three days - Eddie Wilson, Andrea, Kris, one I can't remember. All Indo-Pak-Bangledeshi accents. Managed to trace one call back to central India as well as New Jersey and Washington.
Same B.S. I was very skeptical from beginning. When first caller wasn't getting anywhere, he threatened to shut off my computer because it was a danger to all other XP users and would crash anyway before the end of the day. Didn't happen, of course.
I received several calls from"microsoft" recently saying my computer had sent messages concerning infected files and running at 25% speed. After the 5th call I beleived him. He had an indian accent,hard to understand and left the famous 201 number. He managed to get $249. from me and was going for more when mastercard called about the unusual activity on the card. I plan to go as far as I can to recover the loss and to let others know. Microsoft said they don't call anyone,they let people call them Even tho I have an ID number,the phone number,operater's number and name, it doesn't mean much. My computer was left in frozen position and I had to get help to restore it. Beware of phone calls of any kind.
I just received a call from this number. This person had a strong language Indian dialect and told me that they were calling from Microsoft to tell me that they had detected infections on my computer when I go online. They asked me to open my "event viewer" and let them know approximately how many "errors" and "warnings" I saw listed. I told them and then they got me to another person who they said could help me with these advanced technical problems. So, he gets on the line and starts telling me several things and bottom line was he wanted access to my computer so he could "fix" (remove) the infections and "activate master protection" so that these "infections" wouldn't happen again. He told me if I do not do this, my system will eventually come "crashing down." He blamed the infections on hackers who for the past 4-5 months have been able to get past firewalls and virus protection programs. All of this sounded more than slightly suspicious to me so I asked if I could call him back. He gave me a number 603-491-0147 and said his name was Andrew." He told me that he could transfer me to a Microsoft technican but it would cost $79 for a 1 yr agmt, $149.00 for a 3 yr agmt and the premium agmt for all household computers would run $399. Since I had cash flow issues I could only afford $79 agmt. For some reason my credit card rejected. Andrew changed my password and said he would give me the password only if I promised to pay $149.00 by 2/2/13. If not he would crash my computer. I cancelled the credit card but I need to know who to report the scam to!!
I called my local "computer guy" that I use all the time. He immediately told me it was a SCAM! He has had dealings many times with it before with customers.
I called the number back, and it rang and rang and rang (at least 30 times) with no answer. Hmmmm, guess Mr. "Justin Sykes" knew that he was most likely going to be exposed by my computer guy and gave me the usual bogus number.