A fake Microsoft scam caller. He had an Indian accent and said he was calling from Microsoft and that my computer was infected and I needed to go his website and click on a link and download a virus to my computer, well he did not say it was a virus, but that's what it would have been.
First of all, can anyone really be dumb enough to believe that Microsoft is calling me on the phone because they are worried about my computer being infected? But yet people fall for this all the time.
I told him that it sounded just like that scam I have heard about on the television news shows. He insisted it wasn't a scam. I kept saying it sure sounds like a scam, and I asked him if he was calling from India or some other foreign country, and he then cursed at me, and hung up on me.
The sad thing is that our system is set up to allow these foreigners to call us, using a spoofed phone number that looks like the call came from inside the United States, and yet it is so obviously a foreign calling scam.
The best way to put these people out of business is just to get enough people to realize that almost any time a stranger calls you it is probably a scam. If you don't know who they are, and they call you, it is almost 100% of the time going to turn out to be a scam. If we could just get that message out to the general public, these people would have to find a new line of work. They wouldn't let our lovely money anymore.
A fake Microsoft scam caller. He had an Indian accent and said he was calling from Microsoft and that my computer was infected and I needed to go his website and click on a link and download a virus to my computer, well he did not say it was a virus, but that's what it would have been.
First of all, can anyone really be dumb enough to believe that Microsoft is calling me on the phone because they are worried about my computer being infected? But yet people fall for this all the time.
I told him that it sounded just like that scam I have heard about on the television news shows. He insisted it wasn't a scam. I kept saying it sure sounds like a scam, and I asked him if he was calling from India or some other foreign country, and he then cursed at me, and hung up on me.
The sad thing is that our system is set up to allow these foreigners to call us, using a spoofed phone number that looks like the call came from inside the United States, and yet it is so obviously a foreign calling scam.
The best way to put these people out of business is just to get enough people to realize that almost any time a stranger calls you it is probably a scam. If you don't know who they are, and they call you, it is almost 100% of the time going to turn out to be a scam. If we could just get that message out to the general public, these people would have to find a new line of work. They wouldn't let our lovely money anymore.