AFTER USED THE MAID SERVICE BEGINNING WITH $65.00, THEY CALLED ME WITH THE DIFFERENT MAID SERVICE COMPANY NAME WITH THE MOLLY MAID SERVICE. I KNOW THEY ARE NOT THE SAME COMPANY NAME EACH OTHER. HOW THE OTHER MOLLY COMPANY KNOW MY PHONE NUMBER TO ASK ME IF I WANT TO CONTINUE SERVICE FROM THE OTHER ONE LAST WEEK I ACTUALLY USED?
Yes, received a call from this number this morning at 9:30am... usually do not answer calls from unknown long distance numbers but thought, "What the heck... let's see who wants what today!".
They said they were from Gooseberry Tech and said I had a networking issue. Being computer literate and knowing that I did not have a networking issue (was networking my computers as I spoke to the Indian accented man), I started to ask more questions than he was asking... he did not actually answering any of them (was enjoying this call!). He was trying to direct me to my computer... so I asked which one. He said the windows based computer... I said they are all windows based computers and surely you know which computer is the issue. I said that you windows based computer was a safe answer since 90% of all personal computers are windows based! I kept asking who told them I had a networking issue... the response was "Microsoft". I basically told him that he was full of crap... he politely said thank you and goodbye.
I immediately looked up GOOSEBERRY TECH and confirmed that it was indeed a scam.
I can see how a casual user could get scammed by this... because I did have networking issues months ago to which I needed some online forum discussion to solve my problem. In the first two sentences spoken by this man... it made me think for a split second, was this in response to something I had asked earlier. Note: ONLY A SPLIT SECOND, did I have a lapse in judgement!
Don't give anybody access to your computer that you haven't asked first!
They ask for me by name and tell me that my computer is having problems. "Are you at your computer"? Then want me to log on. THERE IS NO ONE OUT THERE KEEPING AN EYE ON YOUR COMPUTER FOR YOU!!! If you log on, and follow instructions, someone will own your computer. Accent does sound Indian/Pakistani, just hang up. They get your name and ph. # from some info you have given on line. Who knows where? :) Stay safe
yeah they called me on a sunday afternoon ....durka durka durka is all I understood and alll I wanted to say is "your turban is dirty". Scammers for sure