Turn your ringer down on your phone or leave the phone off the hook.My ex used to do that since he worked nights and did not want phone calls waking him up.
They called me yesterday.. At first I thought it was dell tech support because they call me every once and awhile because I have two dell computers.. The dell technicians all have indian accents.. and so did the scammers calling me.. so at first I assumed it was dell... as they kept talking to me, something seemed fishy.. Usually dell tech says "hello (my name) we are calling about your dell computer." This time they didn't do that.. So I thought it might be a scam.. I kept talking to them to get more info.. I asked them what kind of computer I had and they just kept saying windows computer and that it had a virus... then I asked them which one of my computers has a virus.. they couldn't answer that either..
So now that I knew it was a scam, I started having some fun with them.. I always love when the dell tech is a female.. I love the indian females.. so I said to the man on the phone.. I cannot understand what you are saying (because I think their phone had low quality or something).. could you please pass me to a female, so I can better understand her.. I kept asking him for a female and saying that I couldn't understand him.. eventually he let out a big sigh and said "you want to talk to my wife?" after that, he seemed to have come to some conclusion and he got really upset at me.. he started cursing at me lol.. me wanting to stay in character (because I am a nice guy) said is this a prank phone call.. I was pretending to fall for it the whole time.. so after the call ended I started laughing hysterically.. if they call again I will be asking to speak to another female :)
The caller told me that my computer was infected. I asked him for the company phone number, and said that he was not allowed to share their phone number. I hung up.