Got a call from this number, caller ID said New York, NY. I answered as I had a few calls out state wide. Indian woman who I could barely understand and lots of background talking telling me my computer was showing suspicious activity and I risked losing my confidential information. I replied, oh thank you for letting me know and hung up.
Came up New York call. Indian guy who said his name was "Adam. It sounded like he was in a very loud call center somewhere in India. He was calling about "Internet error computer". I asked him for my IP address and surprisingly he didn't hang up. Gave me some [***] IP address then hung up when I asked him about his "Brooklyn accent". I called back and it went straight to a poorly done voicemail. Usually these are auto-generated numbers, so I will be calling back often. I love [***] with these guys.
they try to give a website called teamviewer and that basically lets you give them access to your computer and they tell you that your computer is slow when in reality it isn't and they say things like, "we noticed your computer has some suspicious activity on it". I know they do this because my grandpa was a victim to these scammers. He doesn't know jack about computers and me knowing about them and used to work on them, I saw right through their crap.
I played like my computer was slow and they tell you to click and hold the windows key and press the "R" key and type microsoft.aios.us in the command bar. This will take you to a FAKE COUNTERFEIT SITE and tell you to click on 3 different icons. DO NOT CLICK ON THEM!!!!!
Basically, they PLANT A VIRUS ON YOU and then CHARGE YOU!!! DO NOT fall for this crap!!!
Protect yourself with AVAST antivirus, superantispyware, and a good firewall!!!