Ottawa, Ontario. Got a call from an Indian man claiming to be from Microsoft, wanted me to turn on my computer to fix an error message he said was sent to him, wouldn't give me an error code number or the type of error. My husband is a computer guy so I said if he gave me the code or the error message I could get my husband to fix, he said it's just an error and to turn on my computer, I said no like 10 times during the 4 minute conversation, told him to give me his number and I would get my husband to call him back, he said bye and I repeated my request for the number for my husband to call and he said bye again and hung up.
This number called me and the person on the line said that they were calling from Microsoft Windows Tech Support. He said that they detected that I had unknowingly downloaded a virus on my computer and they needed some information. I hung up of course, but then they called back and I said that I wasn't interested in their help and then the man on the line got mad and I hung up again and they did not call back.
Got a call today. Didn't answer. Don't phone back it could be a scam to redirect to a billing charge similar to 900 numbers. The RCMP say that such a scam is going round now,,