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 them too. They told me to press the windows key and the R key. I told her I was reporting the call to the Police and she started cursing at me. I hung up and will be blocking that number.
Got call from "Mark Wilson" saying he was from MS Support and that our computer is compromised. He needed us to login and allow him to log in so he could fix it. Told him we didn't think so, no more calls since that one earlier this week.
Same deal, call from "Mark Wilson" with heavy Indian accent from 206 424-8913. Alleged our computer was hacked, wanted to do fix. tried to get us to turn over control of the computer to him remotely. This is a scam. Beware. After credit card numbers, back accounts, etc.