This number wanted me to access my computer and go to a specific website to 'fix' a problem that apparently I was having. She had very broken English skills to start with and got extremely flustered when I said no problem I will take my computer in to the tech shop in the morning to be looked at. She tried to insist that a tech would not know what to do and that I could solve the 'problem' by following her instructions....sure...like I'm an idiot...
This number wanted me to access my computer and go to a specific website to 'fix' a problem that apparently I was having. She had very broken English skills to start with and got extremely flustered when I said no problem I will take my computer in to the tech shop in the morning to be looked at. She tried to insist that a tech would not know what to do and that I could solve the 'problem' by following her instructions....sure...like I'm an idiot...
Today, November 21, 2011, I received a phone call from this number. His English was very poor and I asked him to repeat himself 3 imes. I then asked him if this was telephone solicitation and for the name of the company that he was representing. Of course I could not understand that either. He did insist that I had a comupter problem and all that he wanted from me was for me to go to the computer so he could fix it. Of course charge me for this fake service. He would have full access to my computer and in the end I would have more problems them even he could imagine!! IT IS A SCAM! Do like I did, take a whistle and blow it as loud as you can into his ear and then hang up. Hopefully he is now deaf in that ear!
Received a call from a man who represented himself as an employee of Microsoft - later corrected himself by saying he was a Microsoft Certified Engineer. Indicated he had received reports about a problem with my pc (I use a Mac). Rather than allow him to go on with his script, I asked for his name and who he worked for. He would not tell me his company name clearly (PC Techies??) and hung up when I pushed him on it...