This number called not too long ago, and I let it go on the machine. Whoever it was left a message saying "hello, are you there..." over and over for about a minute. Listening back to it, it didn't sound like an actual person, but a recording.
Second call in 18 minutes from pest callers supposedly located in New York City. This one had NEW YORK in the caller ID, and the other one had ALERT in the callerID (347-753-9062)
This man called with a foreign accent telling me that there was something wrong with my computer. I asked how he got my number. He kept talking about the problems with my computer. I asked him how he even knew that I had a computer and he then proceeded to tell me to, "go to hell" and I told him that wasn't possible today.
person asked if I was the owner of the computer and I said "no" which temporarily stunned the caller who said "you are not the owner of the computer?" to which I replied "who are you?" - he sort of identified a company (unintelligible) and said that microsoft had detected a problem with our computer and I said, "I don't think so!" He asked how I knew that, was I a technician, to which I said, Yes! "You are an IT technician?" "Yes!" He repeated some sort of "detected problem" and I stated there was no way to connect the computer with this phone number. He seemed befuddled, and eventually hung up.
I never send "error reports" to companies, so I know this was leading to unethical activity.
They have you pull up a computer log file which shows errors your computer has encountered (standard windows stuff). Lockups etc. Then the "technician" Paul something american that still has the accent but is trying to hide it wants you to go to a join.me.com web site, that way they can get in your pc and start looking around. For some reason, my home phone was having some problems and I had just unplugged my dsl line and was going to check my phone out on that jack when i got the call. I heard the phone ring in the garage and answered it. Could hardly understand the guy. I didnt fall for the joinme website, told them i knew exactly what they were trying to do and told him to go phishing somewhere else and hung up. I tried to call them back but it would not go through. I wanted to ask whoever if their computer was running then tell them to go catch it. LOL