I had the call from a guy I could barely understand (I speak french), indian accent for sure.
He said he was calling for Microsoft from I didn't understand the company name, he said I donwloaded a virus!!!
Anybody with an once of intelligence know that's scam, but he also had the time to tell me he wanted me
to switch my computer on and follow his instructions before I hang up...
He called 2 more times in the next minute. The other numbers were:
315-458-7682
607-739-9798
and I checked the calls we had before because it happened a couple times in the last week and we did not answerd
because the numbers tells us nothing... Here they are:
631-581-9211
630-859-9404
So what can we do???
It is amazing how much information you can obtain from the social networking sites, faceb ook and such. it is very easy to do and all you have to do is then come up with a reason to call and make some money by scamming or stealing from others.
ANYONE USING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE CAN BE SCAMED SO EASY
We get calls once a week from scam artist claiming our computer is badly infected and we need to let them have access so they can fix it.. Say they are from Windows...bull... we know it is a scam to get into our system...we hang up or say that person is deceased but they keep calling with same scam. Sometimes a man sometimes a woman, always an Asain accent. We are ready to called in the big guns.. Numbers they called on today are 210-824-0171 and 310-510-9156
first got a call from 607-594-4641. Thick accent saying they were from Microsoft & my computer had problems. Knew it was scammers right away, but I was bored and figured I'd lead them on for a bit. Could barely understand what this person was saying, but just kept saying 'ok' or 'yes'. I think he wanted me to be near my computer. Then he tells me to hold on while he gets his 'supervisor'. I hung up. They call me back right away, this time from 718-745-5293. Same person tells me we were disconnected & hold on for his supervisor again. Supervisor comes on with some English name, spoke better english but with an accent, starts telling me about Microsoft error reports blah blah blah. Wasn't having any fun so I just told them I don't have time for this and hung up. Was going to block these numbers but I already have 10 numbers blocked, which is Verizon's limit, from other past scammer calls. Does anyone actually fall for this bs?
I answered and told him he was a scammer. He told me he was a hacker and was in my bank accounts and was going to take everything out. I asked him specific questions which he could not answer. I told him to examine his life.