I just received this call from a man with a think accent claiming he was from Microsoft and my computer was giving them "Error, Error, Warning, Warning" messages. Since I signed up for a similar type of service from HP a week ago when I bought my new computer, I listened thinking this might be real, but I also thought it might have been a prank call. I sat quietly listening, and once he asked me if I was near my computer, I asked "Is this a recording" and he didn't answer instead going, "Sir, Hello, Sir". I hung up immediately, and searched the number on Google and found out it was a scam, thankfully I hung up. I received a call earlier in the day from a "Fabian Aguilar" (323-265-9875), I answered but no one said anything so I hung up. Looks like that was a scam too.
Now I want to know, how did these people get my number all of a sudden?
Received a call tonight from a guy with a very heavy foreign accent. Caller ID said Mike Drew and the above number. He said my computer had a virus. Asked me if I was in front of my computer, told him "no" and that I did not have a virus and hung up. I was not going to fall for that scam!
Got a call at 525pm caller id said Drew, Mike. He said same as other calls. He was calling from Microsoft Windows and needed to fix something on my computer, and he would walk me through the process. I said ahhhh, yes Mike, thank you for wanting to help! Hold on one minute, Let me just google your phone number to ensure you are indeeded a number of Microsoft windows..........click! Sccammers!
Had 2 calls this week from this number. One was a male, one was a female, both with heavy accents. I got the same speech about them being from Windows, and my computer was putting malicious files on the internet, and they would help me fix it. When I asked how they knew that it was my computer, they said it was registered to me when I bought it. I then told them that my computer wasn't bought, it was built and the software was not linked to my cell phone. They hung up.
I just received this call from a man with a think accent claiming he was from Microsoft and my computer was giving them "Error, Error, Warning, Warning" messages. Since I signed up for a similar type of service from HP a week ago when I bought my new computer, I listened thinking this might be real, but I also thought it might have been a prank call. I sat quietly listening, and once he asked me if I was near my computer, I asked "Is this a recording" and he didn't answer instead going, "Sir, Hello, Sir". I hung up immediately, and searched the number on Google and found out it was a scam, thankfully I hung up. I received a call earlier in the day from a "Fabian Aguilar" (323-265-9875), I answered but no one said anything so I hung up. Looks like that was a scam too.
Now I want to know, how did these people get my number all of a sudden?
I also received a call from 516-223-6529. The caller had a very strong foreign accent, though he told me his name was Brian MacKenzie. He told me my computer was sending error messages to Microsoft. I asked him what kind of information did he have that led him to believe I owned a computer. He was very surprised to think I didn't HAVE a computer. I then asked him for a number where I could call him back. He gave me the number 201-399-6208 which I found to be a company called Tech Wizard. While I had him on the phone, I asked him why my caller ID said the call was coming from Mike Drew if his name was Brian. He didn't know any Mike Drew. I had been looking forward to receiving that call, because I wanted to engage him in conversation in an attempt to glean as much info from him as possible without giving him any info from my end.