That's funny, I thought the same thing, of course afterward, I should have asked which computer of the many running in my house. Would be interesting to see if they squirm a bit.
received call from a man with East Indian accent (caller ID showed Kristen Young, 985-778-4834) said that they show I'm a registered windows user and that I need to go to my computer and they'll step me through what I need to do, in order to fix problems. I played along for a while and then said I'm a MAC user only and no Windows here, that stopped him in his tracks! Told him he must be crazy if I'd ever do what he is asking, etc etc. and hung up! I feel sorry for some older person that might listen to them. :( They need to be stopped!!!
All of the above. Yes, Indian accents, claiming error messages Microsoft is getting from my computer, same arguments as I read all of the notes from the other commenters. "but ma'am, you never answer our calls" Thankfully have caller ID, and will block further calls from them.
Just finished up with the second instance of this. First was fielded by my wife while I was out of town and she told them that she couldn't operate the computer (not far from the truth, LOL). She called me and told me about it.
Today they called while I was on the computer, so I figured I'd play along when my wife told me "It's the guys that say there's a problem with the computer". I played along and the first guy then said he'd transfer me to the technician who would help out. The line went dead. A minute later, someone else called and started the whole speil again, along with something about me hanging up on them, but I played dumb and said, no, the line went dead. The second guy had me run msconfig and look at the services list, and asked how many of the Microsoft Corporation services showed as stopped. I told him about half and he replied with "OH MY GOODNESS" along with something about if all the services stopped, the computer would crash. At that point, he wanted me to allow him to connect to the computer to "fix" it for me, at which point, I said "No you're not. You'll install something that IS a virus and take it over." I told him that the stopped services were completely normal, and that the computer was fine and he was a scammer, at which point he went off the deep end, trying to accuse me of "being a billionaire" (??), and "why would I want your money?", at which point I told him not to call again. He replied "we'll call you hundreds of times", to which I replied. If you call again, I'll report you to the FCC, as it will be illegal as I had just told him not to call again. His parting shot was a one-ring callback.
Same number, which is probably some poor sap's number that's been hijacked. I'm wondering what would happen if I called them? Will be blocking the number, but unfortunately, they'll just call someone else. I like the air horn idea.