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
I received a call late last night and a woman with a deep Indian accent claimed something was wrong with my computer and needed the code. I told her to EFF off and never call my house again
They just called at 10:15 PM. All kinds of voices and noise in the background. Woman said they have a report that says my Windows computer has reported a problem and they can help fix it. Told them that we don't believe in computers and don't own one! She said 'Oh' and hung up!
Called at 11:38pm and woke us up. I told them it was almost midnight and to got to sleep and never call back. If they call back I will mess with them and then have them blocked! Trash they are!
Two attempts from this outfit today, both times showing the ID "Randy Holmes", one around noon and just now around 6:30 pm, both from guys with South Asian (India, Pakistan or Bangladesh) accents, but with Anglo-American names given, though not "Randy". The first my wife answered and fairly quickly hung up on, realizing this was probably a scam. The second I picked up, the guy introducing himself as a Windows technician and trying to convince me -- a skeptic and former IBM programmer -- that I should begin by typing MSConfig. Playing with him, I asked if there was another way. He obliged and asked me to hit the Windows key (i.e. the one with Microsoft's logo on it, which opens up what hitting the Start button will also open up) and the "r" key. Knowing that this was the "run" program he wanted me to go to, I told him that I didn't want to run anything. Ultimately he acknowledged that I might know something about computers, but nevertheless pressed on with all kinds of attempts at getting me to do what I knew I didn't want to do with him. Along the way I asked him what company he was working for; he replied: "Windows". To that I responded "Windows is not a company; it's an operating system by Microsoft, so what company are you working for?". To that he went back to saying, "I'm a Windows technician." Having tired of playing him around, I told him I used to work for IBM, that I knew he was a South Asian scammer and that his operation was very visible online. Then I was told that I was a "stupid American" and that's why he had attempted to correct the problems in my computer to no avail; and then hung up. Laughing out loud ( ;-p)
P.S. The "Call Type" menu on this website allows me only "Unknown" or "Telemarketer" for something to approximate this call type. These guys are neither. So how about adding the choice "Scammer"?