A guy with an Indian accent called and said he was technical support. Told me to go to my computer so he could access it. I told him he was a scammer and hung up. Beware!
Got a call from 1-985-657-7574 says he was from Windows (name John with foreign accent) and my computer has a problem. He asked me to go in front of the computer for him. I said no I will not. He asked why? I told him I more important things to to do right now. He asked what brand of computer I have. I said Linux OS with only a command prompt. He still wanted me to go my computer. I then told him I had a Macintosh with 10.7 OS and I asked him if that was alright. He hung up. Then he called back a few seconds later and said we were disconnected. I told him he hung up on me and he should find a better way to make a living then trying to get me to go to a web site and give him my credit card number. Then the line went dead again.
This is about the sixth time someone calls and identifies themselves as from Windows. Seems like they don't want to associate themselves with a branded company name. About a year ago our IT dept at work first warned us about of this type of scam. Sure enough a week later I got the first call. I strung the guy along (identified himself from Windows). for 45 minutes. He tries to gain your confidence by telling you common hidden things within your computer environment that you normally wouldn't check, like looking at your event viewer, reciting a numeric file code which all computers have. He tries to determine the OS environment (Win XP Home or Pro, Win7...etc) by asking what you see and what symbols look like.
He told me I would go to jail for not working with him over the phone. I told him I was going to throw my computer away and get a Mac. He got very agitated and repeated that I'm going to jail. I told him to report me and he hung up.
Since then I got 2 left messages with the same opening line of my computer hacking their server. The last call was from someone that sounded like an older lady (nice soft older voice) but I told her not to call anymore. Apparently they just don't give up but fun to string along.
Can't the phone companies do something about this?? Or maybe Microsoft?? It never stops. The last time I just kept screaming, "I don't want your calls" Until the "native" English speaker with an Indian accent hung up.