Guy named Mike (thick Mumbai accent) called and identified my husband's name and phone number as associated with Windows PC program we purchased from Microsoft. A bit scary that this information can leave the hands of Microsoft to a 3rd party?!
We also are on the DO NOT CALL list, but that's managed by the FTC and about as empty as the No Child Left Behind act - - they both sound great, but there's nothing effective nor sustainable about either one.
I've received call from these folks at least 5 times in the last month...More of the same - Windows technical support, thick Indian accent, could not understand him, he got his supervisor on the phone and wanted to fix my computer. I told him the computer was not on and he said to turn it on and he'll call back. When I asked for his telephone number he said it was 4242 536 700, an odd way for someone in the US to break up their phone number. Is there anything that can be done to stop these scammers
persistent men with heavy indian accents called me several times and wanted me to log on to a .com sight and told me about the viruses i am generating or receiving (not sure which). not alright!! they gave me a number to call them back when i insisted that the call just didn't seem right. 424 256-3700...i won't be needing the number but thought someone else might reference.
This guy a real pest -keeps calling, cays he is from the tech dept. at windows wanting access our computer-says it is infected. I keep making excuses, he keeps calling back.
I have been getting these calls about my computer letting out personal information. I don't have a computer, I only use the library computer for Facebook. I have asked this person if he is calling from India, he laughed and told me no, he is calling from U.S.A. California, from U.S.A. Window Technical Department, he had an accent, similar to the ones from India. He gave me his name as Brian Smith, which I knew it was fake. He wanted my Email number, I wanted his telephone number. I told him that when I will go to the library the next day, I will call him when I will get on the computer. The phone number that he gave me to call him was 424-256-3700. When I asked him what kind of information he was getting from "my computer", he told me personal and banking. When he said banking I knew that it was a complete hoax, because I do not do banking on the computer, I don't know much about computers, only for me to go on Facebook, and I am still learning. I know that he will call again, I would like him to stop calling, because he is a liar.
I rec'vd numerous calls from out of area number 90-072-4469 - talked to a very suspicious sounding and heavy accented man who wanted to discuss my computer. He claims that my computer is sending out viruses to the Microsoft main server. Ummm. Sure. I asked him to verify his information, he put his "Supervisor" on the phone, who at least stopped yelling and interrupting me... when we got to the point where he wanted access to my computer, I asked him for a return phone number. He provided 424 256 3700, I called back and he answered. Meanwhile I Googled this information, as well as jumping right onto Microsoft's website, verifying this is a scam. These people have called my house SEVERAL times today... how can we make them stop? Sheesh!