I am on the phone with a caller claiming to be

[Kingofalldems]

from Microsoft. They have me going through my computer looking for malware Is this a scam?

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yes, almost certainly...nt

[pinboy3niner]

2. Scam. nt

[Tobin S.]

3. Maybe. Did they call you?

If so, hang up.

[elleng]

4. HANG UP.

[leftyohiolib]

5. omg hang up

[Kingofalldems]

6. Thanks, just did.

Call came from India. They had me hitting the windows key to call up errors. The operator exclaimed 'Oh my God!' when I read the number of 'errors' at the top of this chart that came up.

[NightWatcher]

7. Does the plumber call you when your toilet backs up?

Or is it vice versa?


If you had a problem, why would they call you?


I'm amazed at the numbers of people who fall for scams.

[HERVEPA]

8. Oy Vey

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Big-time scam. Hang up and report them.

http://greekgeek.hubpages.com/hub/telephone-scam-computer-virus

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I kept one of those guys on the line for over 30 minutes

by pretending to be a dim and old old woman.
he kept telling me to look at my Windows and I kept laying the phone down, then telling him I had looked out my window and what was I supposed to see?
and other goofy stuff.

Finally, at the end, I asked him if I needed to be using a Microsoft computer, cause I did not have one.

[cyberswede]

11. oh my god

That's absolutely HILARIOUS!!

[rurallib]

29. I told the guy the police chief was a good friend of mine

and he was having some trouble with his computer - could I have his telephone number, please?

[nomorenomore08]

13. That is classic! What I wouldn't give for a recording of that...

[LisaL]

15. Love it.

[hopemountain]

18. lol! i did the same

and strung him along when i finally could not keep from laughing and blurted out i have a mac….

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. I consider them unsolicited forms of entertainment.

[sarge43]

28. You're evil. I salute you.

[hobbit709]

12. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

1. M$ doesn't call you
2. They don't do anything about malware
3. If they know all this why are they looking through your computer?
4. unsolicited phone calls deserve a hangup.

[RebelOne]

23. YES! YES! YES! YES! n/t

[csziggy]

14. Yes, but laugh at them and tell them how silly they are

Do it the next dozen times they call. Actually since I started laughing at them, they've only called back a few times. They get very offended by being laughed at and seem to have no sense of humor. It can be really funny to laugh at them and listen to their reactions. They make laugh even more.

Truly, this has worked better than hanging up on them. And the laughing makes me feel better.

[Locut0s]

16. Hang up!....

It's a common scam. Don't give them any information!

I dicked around with them last time they called me. Eventually they hung up in me lol.

[laundry_queen]

17. Total scam.

First time they called me, they had a pretty convincing guy at the other end, and I was like, um, I don't think I have any issues, I just updated everything this morning. Then I was like, wait a minute, this seems fishy so I asked him, how the heck can you tell what's going on on my computer, isn't that an invasion of privacy? Then he got abusive and started screaming and threatening me, so I called the Canadian anti-fraud center and reported the number that had showed up on my call display.

They called again a month later, and I asked them a bunch of questions and again, they got mad and rude, so I hung up.
The next time they called, I basically said, "don't you try to fool me with your scam shit, I've got your number on my call display and I'm calling the cops right now"
I haven't had a call since.

What they want to do is send you something to 'download' to 'fix' your computer. What it REALLY does is spy on you and gives them all your info that you enter in your computer.

[anasv]

24. fake phone numbers

Scammers usually hack the phone system so the callerid displayed numbers are fake.

Does anyone here seriously think Microsoft cares if there is anything wrong with their pc?

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Yes

It is a scam Microsoft does not do this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. If they call back, tell them NSA does a better job of spying on your computer.

And any suspicious phone call, do a quick search online, the scam results will pop up very quickly.

[Recursion]

22. Microsoft will only call you to get you to buy more licenses

They don't know or care what's on your computer otherwise. It's a scam.

[Blue Diadem]

25. There's a scam with that one too.

My last call was one like that.

[CTyankee]

26. I got one of those calls yesterday. I just hung up without a word...

[EOTE]

27. The call is coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!

I thought everyone was familiar with what to do when a stranger calls nowadays.