Just had the same company try this on me in the UK..Indian accent, however working as a CIO I knew my personal PC was protected etc.. so after asking a few questions they hung up.
Just had the same company try this on me in the UK..Indian accent, however working as a CIO I knew my personal PC was protected etc.. so after asking a few questions they hung up.
My wife just had this call.
The primary reason to know this is a scam is because even if your computer was infected with somehting and atatcking someone else's servers, they would not have your contact details, all they would have is your IP address then they would only be able to track that back to your ISP and contact them, and your ISP would then be the one's to contact you, as they are not allowed to give out your personal details.
got the same type of call today--and my wife said she had several in past few days with similar request. "Your computer is infected...., are you at your computer?" Said he worked for Digital Network Services, with an 866 telephone number.
Just had this same experience. I asked where she was calling me from, and she said something I could not understand. I said this is a bunch of crap and a scam! She hung up on me.
I just had the same man call me with an Indian accent now claiming to say the same thing. I told him I did not trust him and would not give him any information. He is very patient and good with his words as I was even yelling at him and he still had the audacity to ask if he could call me back. I told him he could call me back at a certain time in the evening. I'm interested to see if he will actually return my call. How can we stop these people is what I'd like to know.