This number is (or was) connected to a pay phone in Boulder, Colorado. When I called back, I received no answer for over a minute (and then was disconnected). Someone on another site wrote that it was a solicitation for an auto loan.
I don't know who they are or what they want, but I can only guess that they are scammers using a spoofed number (again). These calls are illegal, and so I will report them to the donotcall.gov website.
I just got a call as well. Could tell it was scam. The woman said she was calling about my personal computer. When I questioned she hung up. Can't trust anyone these days.
Also just got a call from this scam - wanted to get into my home computer - wouldn't let them and they got rude - and threatened they had my IP address and would shut me out of windows. Told them not to threaten me and hung up - they called back three more times (didn't answer) and the third time left a rather nasty cursing message.
My mom received a call from them last week concerning the same thing as the previous posts. My poor mom being 70 years old knew right then and there to hang up on them as I warned her about these types of scams. I also told her to let me know if she got a call from them again.
Well, wouldn't you know it, I got that same exact call from this Indian dude, He was reading off a paper to me a mile a minute and I couldn't make out what he was saying. I told him to stop reading off of his "planned speech" and to tell me what he wanted. I swear to God that he had a cassette recording of office noise (talking and phones ringing, etc,...)
Well, I started questioning him and grilling him saying that he was a scam artist and a phoney. I kept asking him how he could live with himself knowing that he is a terrible person trying to do harm and gain money off of people. He assured me that he was a "Genuine Microsoft Windows" employee and that he had proof, but I called him on it!
I guess that he had had enough of my grilling and then started what I am sure was cursing in his native tongue and then hung up on me! How rude!!! I guess that I made him MY [***]!!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
I just received a call from this number and the guy that I was talking to said that my computer would NOT work in the next half hour if I didn't give him access to it through TeamViewer so he could show me where a virus was.
He claimed to be a Microsoft Engineer so I asked for his name, employee number, phone number and extension and he said he would give it to me AFTER he fixed the computer.
I have 5 computers running in my home and they aren't all hooked to the same modem. How could he know which computer was the one that was affected by this so-called "virus".?
Be afraid.... Be VERY afraid of calls like this. There's no way to verify who this person is. I asked him if I could call him back but he wouldn't offer the information I requested.
This is a scam in my opinion. They just want access to your computer so they can pull ALL of your personal information and chances are, create a duplicate identity of you somewhere else.
Giving someone remote access to your computer has to be one of the biggest mistakes you can make unless you know exactly who's viewing it.
He said I could verify his company by going to callmicrotechnician.com which really doesn't tell me anything. There was no employee list and if you do a whois lookup you'll find this information:
CALLMICROTECHNICIAN.COM SITE INFORMATION
IP: 213.5.177.196
IP Location: Athens, Greece
Website Status: active
Server Type: LiteSpeed
Alexa Trend/Rank: Up Arrow 1 Month: 5,741,115 3 Month: 11,867,761
Page Views per Visit: 1 Month: 2.0 3 Month: 2.0
This is awfully strange considering he said he was calling from Texas and the Contact Us page says they're located in Beverly Hills California and the above information shows that this is located in Greece.
Nothing adds up.
Anyways.... be very careful about who you give access to your computer, especially remotely.