Unsoliceted call pcsupportcenter.net - report from internet router that my pc was corrupting - they wanted remote access - asked them what they proposed to do -passed to another handler - conversation interspersed with microsoft certified - who said my anti vrus was not any good - and eventually said that some payment would be required.
Someone, maybe with an Indian accent, calls and says they are with Microsoft and are calling because they got an error report sent from my PC. A couple flags go up here 1) my PC will not send out my phone number, 2) their English is worse than the people Microsoft outsources American jobs to, and 3) Microsoft does not care enough about problems with their software to follow up on it, 4) also there was a lot of background noise.
Today I spent 2.5hrs on the phone with 2 different gentlemen from an Indian call centre, them pretending to be microsoft windows engineers, who very kindly rang me to tell me that i have severe problems with my pc's... 2.5 hrs of me , "ohh I'm not very good at this", "is that double U or W?" Got the first guy so rattled that he said "Jesus Christ" and gave me to another call handler.. He said they were in Bushy Head, so I talked about how much snow they had.. Asked me to download a remote viewing program (I didn't), I needed my glasses, the postman came, I made lunch and ate it while I was "waiting" for the program to download.. I'm a grandma and I reminded the guy called "Shaun" yeah right, of his 74 yr old grandmother.. all so I could click on a website and pay £35 for a years support for my laptops.. at one point I had tears running down my face with laughter.. I put the phone down after the 90 mins and THEY RANG BACK, desperate or what?
Unsoliceted call pcsupportcenter.net - report from internet router that my pc was corrupting - they wanted remote access - asked them what they proposed to do -passed to another handler - conversation interspersed with microsoft certified - who said my anti vrus was not any good - and eventually said that some payment would be required.
Called me just now and said I had a virus on my computer that my ISP has told them to call. They wanted to prove it with by showing my a .sys file on my pc that is infected I think it might of been svhost.sys but couldn't hear it much. When I said I run a Linux system he still insisted its infected and he could show me. I asked where he got my information from he said from my ISP but when I asked which ISP or even IP he responded that he could not disclose that information.