I normally would not have answered this call but I was expecting a call from my insurance agent and did not look at the ID. A woman with a thick Indian accent said she was calling from Microsoft support. Microsoft will NEVER call you so I knew it was a scam. Often they want you to give them remote access and will either use it for identity theft or tell you that you have malware and want you to pay to have them remove it. Some will even have you look at info about your system that appears to be errors but are perfectly normal. Since I despise scammers I began yelling and cursing and it did not take her long to hang up. Here is an article about this scam:
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/microsoft.asp
Got a call on my cell today from this number. Did not answer because I did not recognize the New York number. My landline gets numerous crap calls daily, but not my cell.. Any clues, anyone?
got a few calls from this number no message today i answered the phone but did not say anything and there was nobody talking on the others end they hung up. I called it back and a google answer service said they will try to get a hold of "Scott" then it rang to an answer machine .Now this was only 30 seconds after the call that he placed so I left the message with my number telling them that they had a wrong number unless he knows me don't call back and have a nice day then I blocked the number .this is the 2nd time in two days that they called but no message
I normally would not have answered this call but I was expecting a call from my insurance agent and did not look at the ID. A woman with a thick Indian accent said she was calling from Microsoft support. Microsoft will NEVER call you so I knew it was a scam. Often they want you to give them remote access and will either use it for identity theft or tell you that you have malware and want you to pay to have them remove it. Some will even have you look at info about your system that appears to be errors but are perfectly normal. Since I despise scammers I began yelling and cursing and it did not take her long to hang up. Here is an article about this scam:
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/microsoft.asp