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.
i did the same thing. i filled in some personal info. ie microsft password and email address and password, but a few minutes after they got in i got scared and unplugged and shut everything down. the 5 or 10 minutes he was in i could see he was performing disc cleaning and things like that i can do. when i went in later and changed all my passwords on all accounts, updated all my virus and windows software, and everything seems to be ok. it seems to me they're just trying to sell a service you don't need. i haven't heard of anybody actually losing much more than the money they paid to perfom this unnecessary service.
While talking to the supportonclick guy, I was Googling his "company". I told him that I was reading all kinds of people saying this was a scam. He said those comments were all from their competitors.
I just got my 3rd call from them. After informing him that I'm on the National No Call List Registry and telling him not to call again, I hung up.
I've sent a complaint to the FCC at this site:
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
Same thing!! He even had my last name. I know he got this from my phone company becuase I asked them to leave my first name out and he could not verify my first name. It is definitly a scam. They asked right out to get on my computer and fix my computer problems. I told him that I had no computer problems. They said that they were from microsoft and that they could lose their jobs if they did anything else on my computer other than fix it. I felt very uncomfortable at this point. They wanted me to type my personal information in and then as I did that(because they are getting better with their own words) he than said that I would have to pay for their services after the fix. At that point I told him to stop wasting my time and I knew at that instance that it was a scam. Thank God he said I was going to have to pay him because I was unaware of them getting on my computer to steal personal information. WOW. Thank God HE is watching over us and I am such a careful person with my money.
May 5, 2009
I received a phone call saying, I needed to get on my computer write away so
he could get rid of the virus. He said he was from microsoft and they received a message. I questioned him to ask where he got the information from. He said is this the first time you have ever gotton a call like this? As if that would validate his call? He was a foreign but "funny" his name was Jason Watson. I ask for his phone # and he gave me 347-289-3770. People need to be aware--of SCAMS