I had this Technical support firm In 2013 , suppose to be for a year , worked for awhile , Then lost my Hotmail and got hacked anyways , Now they want more money to fix what they did, I refused , So now they are calling and said they want to update software , I said I gave up that comp to someone else ,they said they are still monitoring it and still see it needs tech support .I said how do you know my phone number and how and why are you monitoring the comp from 2013,You're wasting your time on me. I was noticing I wasn't moving my mouse but it was moving on it's own , Now I'm getting paranoid ,really did give my comp to relative in my house and it's windows xp , and old , but they will handle it , But I still got 2 more calls today, they play the accent card and pretend they don't understand . lol and my name has been taken off their list mnay times lol but they still call , maybe they can't read . They are from India but I found out calls are form New Jersey ,
This is a call I get everyday of the week, I don't answer because I know they want to get into my computer they say I need my computer cleaned out, I told them to please stop calling me but they call everyday anyway. I asked then to remove my name and stop calling. Is there anyone out there that can stop the nonsense Please
Modern technology has given telespammers the tools to call you.
Lawbreaking telescammers ignore both the Do Not Call list and any request you might make.
Modern technology can also protect you, if YOU do a few simple things!
The most effective thing to do is to get a call blocking device, service or app.
Then, use it correctly.
Google "call blocker" for more information. There are available apps (some free) for smart phones, and services and devices for landlines.
If you cannot use or afford such a tool, then:
• Do not answer calls from unknown numbers ... let them go to voicemail or answering service. Telespammers usually hang up after 3 or 4 rings.
• Do NOT return calls from unknown numbers! All that does is verify your phone number, and make it more valuable to more spam groups! And, in some cases, those return calls may cost $20 or more to complete. If the incoming call was important, they would have left a message!
• If you have a "dumb" cell phone, assign the scammer's number to a group named "scam" (or similar). Then, assign a silent ringtone to that group. (This also works for smartphones). The spammer will usually hang up before the phone goes to voicemail.
• Another option, for cell phones: Assign a "silent ringtone" as DEFAULT. Then, assign your favorite ringtones to all known friends / family / business numbers. That way, you will hear rings ONLY from those you wish to contact! You will not hear scammers' rings, even if they change their number! (This is also called "whitelisting", and will cause you to miss calls from non-whitelisted numbers).
If you want to report potential fraudulent or scam calls, here are two pages of links to (mostly government) sites in Canada and the USA were you can report those scams, or learn more about them.
Look here first:
http://800notes.com/arts/I2neMkbUAAo/where-to-report-phone-crime
If the reporting site you wanted is not in the above list, try this one:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/complaint_sites.html