My wife got the call, "twice" and they indicated it was a "Windows security issue" and said it was "URGENT" and she would "lose everything!"...the guy went my "Eric" but I am guessing his name was Mohammed, and he was not from MSFT. I insisted he tell me the name of the company he was with, and after I refused to believe "Windows tech support" he told me the name of the company was "Technical Support" I asked him again and when he confirmed, I laughed out loud at his dumb a** and asked him to send me an email indicating his company & the purpose of his call (can you believe I am still waiting?!). What a fckn' joke, they are the worst I have ever seen, DO NOT RESPOND to ANY of their requests for data...this is an international "tie line" to India/Pakistan/Asia via Seattle....no connection to MSFT, USA or your operating system...complete BS!
Just got a call from this number today.
206-424-8913
Claimed to be from Microsoft Windows.
The person said his name is Mark Wilson.
He wanted me to go to my computer.
i told him i was busy, to give me a number
that i could call him back later.
i called the local police to report this Scam.
Beware! This is a Hacker!
My wife got the call, "twice" and they indicated it was a "Windows security issue" and said it was "URGENT" and she would "lose everything!"...the guy went my "Eric" but I am guessing his name was Mohammed, and he was not from MSFT. I insisted he tell me the name of the company he was with, and after I refused to believe "Windows tech support" he told me the name of the company was "Technical Support" I asked him again and when he confirmed, I laughed out loud at his dumb [***] and asked him to send me an email indicating his company & the purpose of his call (can you believe I am still waiting?!). What a fckn' joke, they are the worst I have ever seen, DO NOT RESPOND to ANY of their requests for data...this is an international "tie line" to India/Pakistan/Asia via Seattle....no connection to MSFT, USA or your operating system...complete BS!
Got a call from this number, said he was from 'Windows Help' (I remember the background soundtrack from being called by 'Microsoft Corportation' scam, they must think we're stupid) wasn't the person he was trying to scam so he kept repeatedly asking me my name and relationship to that person 'before he could leave a number and message', I finally got him to just give me the number. And here it is on a list of scam reports, imagine that?
Called himself Sam through a heavy 'Indian Accent', and was humming when I picked up, I think that was my first clue.
Same happened to me today, Justin Paul (ID 1235568) from Microsoft wanted to help fix my computer and I am being hacked all the time. Showed me over 5000 cases since Nov 2012. He wanted me to leave him with access to my pc for 3 hours and to buy anti hacking tool for $299.95 and was quite insistent. His pakistan accent, spelling mistakes on the page he was showing me and tone rang alarm bells so I told him I'd think about it. Do not speak with them or given them access to anything - GITS!