Mike called and said he wanted to show me all the error messages that were getting reported back to Microsoft. I stayed on way to long with this guy but I wanted to see what he would ask me. The hairs on my neck went up. He asked me to click this and go there... basically taking me to a run file window he asked me to type www.showmypc.com And hit Run! That went the light bulb went off. I started asking questions... he transferred me to a senior advisor. That when I started asking the questions. company name (no answer) phone number 3152153520. His name was Alex. Told him I would call= back.
Got a call on my land line from an individual claiming that my computer had been sending critical error messages concerning my Windows software to them. The call quality was poor, in fact he had to call back just so I could hear him. He wanted me to go to my computer and log on to a site. I told him I could get to my computer, but I would call back if he gave me a number, in an asian accent he gave me 315-215-3520 and said his name was James Brown (...owe that doesn't make me feel good.) i asked if he was with Micro Soft he said no, Micro Soft doesn't call people. I asked for the name of his company and the line disconnceted.
I had a very similar experience as described in the prior post. The caller (in a heavy Asian accent) wanted me to press the control key and the windows key simultaneously. That's when I hung up on him.
Just received a call on my land line for a man with a very thick Asian accent. The call had something to do with my computer (from as much as I could understand). I was immediately suspicious. I asked him a couple of questions but couldn't understand what he wanted. I asked for his name and company name and he gave me the following: soudhlendbcsolutions. I hung up. Glad I did seeing the above comments.
Much the same as others on this thread. Call claiming to be from Windows center. Caller seemed unfazed when I initially suggested he find an honest job. When I asked what city they were calling from I got told "Florida". A 'supervisor' then came onto the line. I asked what time of day and he said "middle of the night" as they were on night shift (was actually 2:38am). They had no watches and no time on their computer screens!! Gave me this phone number when pressed but didn't know prefix code.
I had the same thing as listed above happen, they called from 513-940-1370, her name was supposedly Rachel Dell and she gave me a return number of 315-215-3520 when asked what number I could reach her at if call was disconnected, she insisted that this was a toll free number even after repeatedly telling her I knew several people with this area code and it is not a toll free number. The computer she insisted is "downloading harmful malicious junk files and corrupting computer" every time we use it. She wanted to give me steps to follow and I told her I was going to write them down to do later and she insisted I do steps while on the phone as there was codes she would need along the way, I told her I would have to call back after checking her out as this is suspie.