I got a call today (3/8/13) from guy with a thick dialect...maybe Indian...but the number was "unknown." This was my second call, the other one was yesterday from a woman with a thick dialect. I gave both of them a really hard time because I knew it was a scam! I finally told the guy today that I thought this was a scam and would he remove my name from their call list...which he said he would do (yeah! right!). It really throws them off when you interrupt their "script" to ask questions. I do this about a minute and hang up.
This is the third time I've received a call from this idiot (and I'm being nice). The previous two times I eventually got angry, told him to go to hell, but today I "played along" for a bit. He told me his company got a message that I was having problems with my computer and they could repair it for me. I asked him why I should believe him and his reply was that my computer was in serious trouble of crashing if I didn't let them fix it. I then asked why they got the "message" and his reply was nonsensical, so I told him that I didn't even own a computer (I was actually online at the time), but to give me his number anyway and I'd buy one and call him back!
The idiot actually gave me this number. He "apologized", there must be a mistake, etc., and I told him to never call me again!!
Foreign sounding guy called Sunday, April 5 and twice Monday evening, April 6. Very pushy. Insisted I log on to my computer so he could fix it. I insisted there was nothing wrong with my computer, but he acted as though he hadn't heard me. Kept saying over and over for me to log on and he would fix my computer, that it wasn't well. I asked him his name and phone number and he asked if I would log on when he told me. I said "maybe" and he said his name was James Taylor and phone number was 347-389-3770. I told him I didn't even own a computer. Do people really fall for these yahoos?
I had a call yesterday from a man with a strong accent who spoke too quickly to really understand. I asked him several times to repeat the name of the company he was calling from which he didn't do and instead kept insisting he wasn't trying to sell me anything - I hadn't suggested he was!
It was lunchtime, I couldn't be bothered and hung up.
Today he called again, this time I got him to spell the company name - support onclick.
He kept asking me to confirm I had a computer and used the internet which is odd as he also told me that my PC had contacted him to say the mother system was in trouble and was highly infected and soon all my data would be corrupted. If he 'knew' all that why didn't he 'know' I had a PC?
He said he was from microsoft office support and he knew I used windows XP and it was his responsibility to maintain my PC. I asked him why, his reply was because he was from microsoft .
I didn't like the sound of him at all and told him I thought he was trying to scare people and hung up - I then googled to see if it was a scam or whether I should get my PC looked at! There's nothing like a seed of doubt!
I have used geek squad before - is it possible he can remotely access my system without permission?