A call from Microsoft? Not in my lifetime. I'm in the US. I have caller ID, but it showed "out of area".
My caller was Asian, with such a thick accent, I almost hung up on him. Not because he was Asian, but because his English was literally painful to hear. I made him spell out everything he said (he was losing his patience)..
"Melitious virus," he said. Directed me to go to RUN: and type "e v e n t v w r "
I thought about trying it on an old disused computer which was not connected to the net. Don't have the time. Came here instead. Would like to know, but I'm not good enough to go head to head with these guys. Would like to hear from someone who is. I'd love to "spike" their PC/Mac like they do in movies and melt down their motherboard combined with an electric shock strong enough to knock them on their [***]..
This phone call was an obvious scam, I ended up playing along to see what they got in store. They said that they were from something along the lines of microsoft located in San Francisco, which is very suspicious considering that the phone call doesn't seem professional at all however it was not that weird hearing the caller with a foreign accent since companies outsource customer service, call centers. They said that my computer was sending them error messages, something about the i.p address and they want me to follow their directions. The phone call was completely a joke, I hung up and they called again within a minute with a different phone number. I asked for the manager and they said they they were going to transfer me, one second later it was the same guy, thinking that I can't tell difference saying that he's the manager. Ended up yelling at him for his foolishness of calling back and thinking that I would believe him. I googled what he said before he called the second time and found this post, made me even sure that it that was a scam so I told him straight up that I won't believe him and this phone call is a scam. He got me so mad to the point where I used one profane word and he told me to shut up and swore in return. I'm pretty sure microsoft wouldn't swear at their customers right? By the way, the phone numbers are 360-633-9006 and 253-236-2020, both appeared as washington on my caller id.
This phone call was an obvious scam, I ended up playing along to see what they got in store. They said that they were from something along the lines of microsoft located in San Francisco, which is very suspicious considering that the phone call doesn't seem professional at all however it was not that weird hearing the caller with a foreign accent since companies outsource customer service, call centers. They said that my computer was sending them error messages, something about the i.p address and they want me to follow their directions. The phone call was completely a joke, I hung up and they called again within a minute with a different phone number. I asked for the manager and they said they they were going to transfer me, one second later it was the same guy, thinking that I can't tell difference saying that he's the manager. Ended up yelling at him for his foolishness of calling back and thinking that I would believe him. I googled what he said before he called the second time and found this post, made me even sure that it that was a scam so I told him straight up that I won't believe him and this phone call is a scam. He got me so mad to the point where I used one profane word and he told me to shut up and swore in return. I'm pretty sure microsoft wouldn't swear at their customers right? By the way, the phone numbers are 360-633-9006 and 253-236-2020, both appeared as washington on my caller id.
Once again our friend from India, but this time calling through a number from Bellingham, right accross the border from us.
He asked if I was Mrs so and so and I asked who he was. He started with the computer story again...
I told him I had a good friend in the RCMP and that I told her about a scam. Guess what? He hung up!
Let's hope that'll do!