I get a call from these folks at least twice a week I like to play along with them and tell them, it's about time you called, I leed them on, once they catch on I'm that messing with them they hang up. They want access to my computer lol ya Right!!! Here's my Ssn too!!!
Caller identifies himself as a tech from Microsoft and says that "they've received messages that my computer has been infected with all sorts of viruses". I put on my Bulgarian accent and run the jerk ragged for about 25 minutes and finally, as he thinks he is "selling" me a LIFETIME WARRANTY PROTECTION FOR EVERY COMPUTER I OWN!!! for a mere $399, when he asks me what I see when I type in the www.support.me that he instructs me to do (which, of course, I don't), I tell him a big box comes up that says: THIS IS A SCAM. It throws him for a minute and he starts to tell me what big problems I have on my computer, then someone behind him tells him to give up. I say, "Bazeball haz been beddy, beddy good to me!"
I've been getting calls on my cell from this number for several weeks, no voicemail. Today I picked up just to be sure it wasn't somebody I know and found myself connected to a heavily accented man claiming to be Alex calling about recent problems with Windows on my computer. I could tell by the background noise that he was calling from a call center that sounded like it was located a very long distance from Seattle. I told him I knew he was scamming and not to call me back again. He insisted he was not a scammer, I hung up and blocked this number.
Two weeks ago my neighbor continued talking for some time to a similar caller who got directly connected to her computer and had installed malware before she finally became suspicious, hung up and unplugged her computer until she could get it cleaned up.
Call hang up at 1003 am. It is a spoofed NY number, not Nevada or Seattle. Yes, we hate these horrible crooks. However, please consider using common sense: You answer and talk to them or scream back at them, then you set yourself up for more and calls. Plus, since you are a "live" number -- they sell your phone number to other crooks and make even more money. Sometimes someone checks the phone number out in depth -- well, surprise! The phone numbers are usually stolen from someone's legal phone number. Report to FCC every call, every time -- it is the only way they can close in on these crooks. And no, the DNC list is not a failure -- legitimate businesses abide by it, crooks do not. Why would they follow a law? Remember: common sense. And please, let the elderly and impaired know not to answer the phone. If it hangs up, problem solved. If they leave a message and say call back and you do not know who they are, do not pick up and delete the message. YOU interact then YOU become part of the problem -- YOU give them more money. Privacy is gone, remember, even though the guys in DC think it is still there. Please stop playing games with them; they make more money to make more calls.
The Federal Government only receives about three $3 Trillion dollars a year from U.S. tax payers and they borrow hundreds of billions a year more to make ends meet.
This money pays for federal employee bonuses, new cars for federal executives and other critical spending needs, and many, many vacation trips for Obama each year.
Federal employees also use government computers to watch porn during their government work day, and have for years, according to annual federal government audit reports for the last several.
They have neither the time, the budget nor the desire to do anything about some con man calling your phone.