I also received a call from this guy. He said that I could sign up for
help at $80 a month. I think that he works with other people who work customer service at banks accross the country. How unfair is this!
They want your ss#'s. God only knows what their plans are for your financial situation.
Yes I notified Microsoft a few years ago. I used Network Solutions to look up the owner of the url they gave me. It identified a name address and company in India. The idiot did not anonymous his ownership. I gave it all to Microsoft figuring they have lawyers. Nothing happened. But now MS has a warning about this scam on their website.
Best tactic today is to waste their time if you have it and learn to curse them in Hindu.
same as above. live in NJ. Received a call from Bryan with an accent. He was desperate to send me to supportonclick.com. He asked for my wife, different last name. She is not registered anywhere with the computer. He claimed he was affiliated with Microsoft, and that they had gathered information that indicated a virus. He could even name it "trojan horse virus." I laughed at him and said that was a category, not an actual virus.
A few weeks ago, my wife gave out her yahoo id and password along with her name and phone number to a scam email supposedly from Yahoo Mail support.
I have reported the whole thing to Yahoo.
Call from Indian who assured me I'd been infected with a virus and I should log onto www.supportonclick.co.uk. Gave me his UK number as 01274900834. When I told him I was registered with Telephone Preference Service and he shouldn't be calling me he was completely unaware of their existence. I strung him along for 15 minutes then got bored. There should be some way of shutting down parasites like this.
Told me he'd been asked to call from my ISP's support dept because I had problems on my PC. Suspecting something fishy:
Me: Who's my ISP then?
Guy: Either Virgin, Sky or BT
Me: Well, which is it?
He couldn't tell me, so I got into a discussion about how I was software developer and if I had a problem with my PC I think I'd know about it.
Whenever I asked him a question he couldn't answer he just went back to the original statement that he was calling from the ISP's support dept.
The thing to do with any of these things is just to keep asking them questions - "What do you mean?" is a great one to ask about five times if you've got the time!
That is ok for you to say "what a giggle". You probably know a bit about computers, but there are lots of people out there who know nothing about them and only know how to use them. If you told them the internet is housed in a space station orbiting the moon via a radio link to Washington they would not know anything different!
There are people out there who are elderly and who have had computers bought for them to keep in touch, and their knowledge is very limited. Also those who are new to computing. These are the people these [***] prey on!