I got a call last week from this number with the same exact experience as "Sketch." Same guy with an Indian accent claimed my computer had a virus and my personal information was available on the internet. He also offered to walk me through the directions on my computer to remove it. I declined but they kept calling via this number and an Illionois-based number (603) 318 - 4762 throughout the evening,
I just received a call, in fact, from two numbers. The first was 226-663-8231. It's the Good Friday holiday here in Toronto, Ontario. I got an automated message telling me not to worry but if I want to lower my credit card debt to wait on the line for the next operator. I did and told the guy, "Please don't call on a holiday" to which he began calling me names, "[***]" is the only one I could politely type here, but it got far worse. I hung up and not 5 seconds later I got a call from 416-363-5905...it was the same guy, but this time it became an aggressive and obscene phone call...very graphic in nature. I *57 the number and it became a legal court transcript, but do the police take this kind of thing seriously? I can't imagine that even the low life reprobates that work for these telemarketers want those kind of employees!
My mom just got a phone call from 416 363-5905 and they called her by her last name. Then they ask her for her age and if she sleeps alone and how many people live there. She thought it was my son playing a joke on her. So I called that number and it just keeps on ringing. I called bell and they were no help. So I called the police and now they are going to my mom house. I will let you know what happens.
man with a terrible accent immediately called, told me my address and postal code. told me to turn on my computer to help check for viruses, told him i was a computer programmer running linux. I don't remember what else he said but it was all very sketchy. some sort of scam going on here.
Just got a call from them, asking for Mr. [lastname of owner of line] but as it's listed under my wife's name I always tell them there is no Mr. xxxxxx at this number. Was a guy with a slight indian accent.
But that didn't deter him. He then asked to speak to the owner of the phone number and then tried to quote my number but managed to actually miss a digit, so I said this isn't that number and hung up.
Wish I'd known it was this scam, I love to mess with them as I work in IT and can usually run circles around them with tech terms and calling BS on them.