Just got a call from 213-333-3206 claiming the whole "your gonna crash your computer" "using microsoft windows" "sending error reports" stuff. Told him it sounded like a scam and ended the call. Looked up the number and well you know the rest if you are reading this.
Seems like I'm on the list of every scam artist in the world these days. The latest one said, "Mrs. _____?" I hung up before he could annoy me with whatever bullcrap he had planned. What always amazes me is that these cretins can barely speak English. We can assume that "[***]" is the universal language!
I just received a call from "Windows support". A guy with a very big asian accent is telling me that my computer is sending a virus out through their satellite. And that I have to go in front of my computer so he can tell me what to do.
I could not understand him very well but an alarm bell started ringing. I could hear many other people (like if he was in a very large call center)... I've been having a computer for more than 20 years.... never got a call like that even though I had viruses before...
So I told him that was a weird call, that I would not do anything to my computer under his instructions, that I would myself call Windows or take my computer to a technician I trusted (naming my vendor), that I did not want him to call back.
He did not knew my name, was talking very fast, trying not to let me put in a word.
I hung up.
Like Windows technical support would call me and not know my name.... but have a phone number linked to my Windows software.
This number is repeatedly calling, even at 10:00pm. 213-333-3206 Caller ID MGL BPO . Reverse lookup says it's an LA based cellphone. Haven't anwered the call, and they don't leave a message.
I'm in the UK and had this call. My CLI showed as +2133333206 so I asked him what country he was calling from as I didn't recognise country code 21. He said the Netherlands, so I told him the Netherlands was code 31 not 21. I don't think he understood but he offered to tell me his number than read out my number. After another minute or so arguing he hung up.
If this is a US number the CLI should have a 1 between the + and the 2.
I got a call from the same number telling me the same stuff. I asked him which computer he was referring to because we owe 5. He told me to go to my desktop computer which is the computer seldom used in the house. He just assumed that's what I was using. He kept insisting that he was calling from Microsolf and wanted to help me clean my computer. I started thinking that Microsoft had never tried to help me in the past without requesting money and why would they start helping me now plus if Microsoft was removing viruses from computers, the virus protection companies would go out of business pretty quick. The guy spoke English but did not understand it too well. I told him to leave his number and that I would call him back after I talked to my son in law who is a computer expert. He gave me this number which I did not try to call: 718 414 6518 and told me his name was Steve Wilson even though he sounded more Indian than American.