Received numerous calls from a this number, 215-698-0308, which showed up as George Mathew. (Zaba Search gives an address of 133 Greycourt Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19115) I finally picked up to ask them to stop calling me. The male Indian voice on the line said he was from Microsoft Technical Support and that he was calling because I had been receiving multiple error messages on my computer. He provided me with the CLS ID # for my computer (rather frightening - where did they get that?), and asked me to start going into the Run/CMD innards of my computer, which I refused to do. He then gave me a different number, 214-272-0277, as his call-back number, which I immediately Googled and found out that this is a dangerous scam, tricking people into giving them access to their computer. Be careful of this one!
Got two calls, about 45 minutes apart. First one had Caller ID of "Mathew George", Second one had "PHILADELPHIA PA". Both times hung up as soon as I answered.
Received numerous calls from a this number, 215-698-0308, which showed up as George Mathew. (Zaba Search gives an address of 133 Greycourt Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19115) I finally picked up to ask them to stop calling me. The male Indian voice on the line said he was from Microsoft Technical Support and that he was calling because I had been receiving multiple error messages on my computer. He provided me with the CLS ID # for my computer (rather frightening - where did they get that?), and asked me to start going into the Run/CMD innards of my computer, which I refused to do. He then gave me a different number, 214-272-0277, as his call-back number, which I immediately Googled and found out that this is a dangerous scam, tricking people into giving them access to their computer. Be careful of this one!
Here's how they got that CLSID#: http://www.welivesecurity.com/2011/07/19/support-desk-scams-clsid-not-unique/
If I ran it on any other system, what they are quoting to you would be the same.
These idiots are getting *slightly* more sophisticated, and the general public doesn't know enough about the internals of their computers to know what's really going on.
Just figure it this way - if you are on the Do Not Call list, and they are calling you anyway they are already breaking the law. What other laws are they willing to break? I either mess with them (I was a network administrator for about 20 years, and also had done component-level repair on various computers and electronics devices), or just hang up and file (yet another) complaint with the FTC and the FCC.