these people call daily they want access to your computer I am sure they are hackers. I tell them I have to turn computer on then to please hold then I put the phone down and go about my business til I hear that they have hung up. dont let them get into your computer. whats funny is they have done this as many as 4 times in a row, If I am keeping this guy busy he is not calling someone else
Just got this call at 10:35pm PT, from the 989 683 2639. We asked for his manager's alias (we're both MS... ) He didn't like that and hung up. I recommend we all do that. :)
Last nite @ 1045 PST I also received the call from Kingston, MI, not recognizing the #, I didn't answer and there was no message left. I'm putting this # on my SCAM 'give 'em fax tone' treatment.
I have received at least a dozen of these calls. I have been having fun messing with them. The first time I let them go through their script. When I mentioned I was a sys admin and taught computer security, they had no idea what I was talking about and kept insisting I had a virus. Eventually they just hung up when I said they were idiots and I wasn't going to either allow them into my computer or pay them for anything.
Another time they called, I asked them how they obtained an unlisted telephone number that is never given out. They said it was attached to my OS ID. I laughed so hard at that one. So I asked what company they were from. They said Windows Security. I said that was interesting. I work for Microsoft and we never have heard of you. I asked for their phone number. and address for her company, she got nervous like a duck in the desert and hung up.
I just keep changing my script for each call so that they waste their time and or freak out. Each call is on a different spoofed number, so I keep blocking them, but they keep calling.