Some guy with an Indian accent called, could not understand his name or company name asked me how I was and said my computer was infected. So I played along then I asked him the name of his company and he said, it's not my company then I said to him, yeah cause you are a scam artist and he hung up.
Foreign guy said he was from windows and noticed that we had a computer virus and he wanted us to go to run: and enter some letters. my husband then told him he was not going to do that b/c he didn't know who he was, etc. then hung up.
i was curious b/c i was actually just in the middle of downloading something on my laptop when he happened to call. it was purely a coincidence though.
I keep getting calls from Angels camp in california im so sick of this they keep wanting me to go into my computer and fix things for them this is a scam.
The phone rang but the line was dead when I picked it up. This is thanks to my Telezapper I have inline. Doesn't get all of the stuff but it gets most of them.
I actually DO have a virus. Some one has hacked into my email and these people keep calling me saying they are from Microsoft Windows Department. I played along with them today since it seems awfully fishy that I got this virus 3 days ago and that's when they started calling me. They said they noticed I have been getting some "unwanted emails and they see I have a virus on my computer" I said "yes, that's true". They said they could walk me thru the problem, that I would have to enter some information for them on my computer. I then said to them "why are you calling me about this problem instead of Verizon". CLICK, they hung up. I don't understand why no one can find these people and shut them down since they do have caller ID. I am in Pennsylvania, their number did come up on my called ID...I called the number back but no one answered.
>> I don't understand why no one can find these people and shut them down since they do have caller ID. <<
We can no longer believe the phone number we see on our caller IDs (CID) belongs to the person who called! The bad guys are now using easily accessed technology to "spoof" the CID numbers, so their real number does not appear.
The problem has gotten so bad, the US government actually passed an Act, called "The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009", making such spoofing illegal. See http://www.fcc.gov/guides/caller-id-and-spoofing
for more information.
The FCC adopted that Act in June, 2010, stating that violators could be fined up to $10,000 for each violation.
However, the bad guys are ignoring this law ... after all, they are criminals, and that is what criminals do. Although we now have a "law" against spoofing, it is very difficult to enforce it.
So, if you see a CID number on your phone when you are called by some scammer or telemarketer, it might not belong to the scammer! It might be the number of some unsuspecting third party ... or, it might be one of those numbers that charge $25 (plus about $9 per minute) if you call it back.
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If you want to avoid email-borne virii, change your email client to accept only TEXT email messages. HTML email messages (and/or images) can carry payloads.