Had a call like everyone else. K, I have never come across a person from India on the phone (Lord knows that is all we get now a days) with a common name like ours. That was my first red flag. I got to the point where the tech was going to take control of my computer and stopped them there.
These folks called me another # showing on my caller id.. I picked up and lucky enough I dragged the call on for fun for about 15-20 minutes. I eventually call this guy a scammer 10 times and he hangs up. He tried to prove he was legit and everything. I asked if he was from Microsoft and he said absolutely not.. I was given this # when I asked to for a number to call. I eventually got him pissed and so I just called the number he gave and I surprisingly this guy answered with "Hello, thank you for calling tech support. How may I help you today?". I hung up after. I wish these guys and gals would stop calling... This is annoying. Next time I'll just go bizzerk on them. When I inquired about charges, he told me it was 133 dollars which is ridiculous.. Hence, I'm fond with computers, I tricked him by saying that the thing he wanted me to install was installing... I did pull up event viewer and the website he gave me. There's really no harm in doing so since it's not going to kill my computer. <3 these people ;)
Good for you! Beat them at their own game. Me? Well I got back at them too. I went to the police station to report them as fraud and while I was there, they called my cell phone. I handed the phone to the officer and he told them they had only 24 hours to return my money or else they would charge them with larceny. Well, I got it all back, from the creeps themselves . Every last penny. So yeah, they're not calling me back anytime soon.
Received this call 2 times today, told them that they should stay on the line because I was an Analyst and I had ability to track their whereabouts plus I recorded the conversation, and will contact the Police to file a Fraud case immediately.
Same thing. Called me at work about my home computers. Did not sound "American" but with name Frank Richards. I definitely was suspicious, so am glad that I looked it up! Dangerous!