I keep getting this call and they asked us where we lived my sister had answered it, she then got 3 questions 1. What's your name, she replied 2. How old are you? She replied again. Then question three 3. Where do you live? She didn't reply I hung up the phone and my family is now scared.
I get these from time to time. Today, I am sad to say that I played along. I told the gentleman that I had a Google Chromebook and could not have a virus. He went on about the Windows computer in my house, i told him we have 8 computers (we do...a mix of operating systems). I asked which one had the problem and he gave me some numbers I pretended to write down. Then I let him try to explain to me that I had the trojan horse virus. I asked "which one?" He says "the trojan horse virus, it is very bad for your computer". Me: "but that is a class of virus. Which one was downloaded" Him: "The trojan horse." God forgive me, but I played along and for no other reason than my own amusement. It took several minutes and he was never specific.
When he said I should look at my screen, and follow his instructions, I told him I had to look up his company first (Bloomington, Indiana. he gave me an address, even). What I do believe is that good ol' American scammers engage people in So Asian countries to execute these scams at negligible cost. I would bet any money that the folks who are calling get some horrible wage for annoying us all and somebody who hates paying for school lunches or food stamps is getting fat off of those who actually pay the money.
I also wonder if the call backs add charges (the walmart card or whatever you hear when you call back). I wonder this because I was trying to write down the number and I don't have LD calling on my land line, but it rang through.) so now I'm on hold with Verizon checking if I got any weird charge backs from the call.
Good luck people. I've had my entertainment for the evening.
WATCH OUT!!!!!! Just got a call from 215-220-2321 and they said that my computer was sending out an error report and that they would like to show me the report. I told the guy with the foreign accent to email me the report. He said that he didn't have my email. The caller id said SCHOOL DISTRICT 215-220-2321. DAMN SCAMMERS!!!!!
Got a call today with this phone number 215-220-2321, on my caller I'd it showed SCHOOL DISTRICT and yet the person I was talking to had an accent of a Hindi said that my computer has a problem it needs to be fixed because of the issue about Microsoft . I know it is a scam but the question is are we going to allow this to continue to scam the American people using the caller I'd SCHOOL DISTRICT?