Windows Update (SCAM)

battries not included

Hi not sure if this thread belongs here, I have been receiving calls from persons telling me they are ringing from microsoft in regards to a windows update on my computer, of course I asked them for their name and where are they based ect.. but never giving them any info, I tell them it is a scam and to **** off but they maintain they are really from microsoft and it is important I do as they say blah blah blah....

They sound like they are calling me from an indian sweatshop factory loads of people in the back-round scamming people, sick of it now.

Any way to block their number from calling me?:mad::mad:

The number is: 0015262981

keithclancy

battries not included wrote: »

Hi not sure if this thread belongs here, I have been receiving calls from persons telling me they are ringing from microsoft in regards to a windows update on my computer, of course I asked them for their name and where are they based ect.. but never giving them any info, I tell them it is a scam and to **** off but they maintain they are really from microsoft and it is important I do as they say blah blah blah....

They sound like they are calling me from an indian sweatshop factory loads of people in the back-round scamming people, sick of it now.

Any way to block their number from calling me?:mad::mad:

The number is: 0015262981

Oh man, I have such great fun with those calls.

If I can't be bothered I just tell them I'll go and get the person their looking for and then leave the phone off the hook, my record is 45 minutes, I had a bath and everything and the guy was still there, they didn't ring back again.

seamus

Well known scam:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055837564

Nothing you can do to block them, just hang up without even speaking to them.

Procrastastudy

My mum loves these guys - lets them chat away and then tells them she doen't have a computer (which she doesn't). One guy called her a lair - I think she was looking to fly to India to hunt him down.

They never call me I love winding up inbound callers!

Davidth88

Yep well known scam

I WISH I got one of these calls , I would have SUCH fun .

Procrastastudy

I remember watching a BBC money show - cant remember exactly what it was. They had some guy on form one of the various watchdogs and I laughed so hard I almost shot coffee out my nose.

Official looking guy, professional job on the TV - when asked what his advice was it was "Actually you are better off being as rude as possible"

Some gauntlet thrown down there. I get the impression he'd been wanting to get that off his chest for a while.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Mmm, well known scam, though I think we can say it's not well known enough if they're still doing it.
Sad really, it'd be so easy to wipe them out if the media made a bigger deal of it.

Mearings

To revive this post, I had "James from Windows Technical Dept" today re imminent attack on my computer. Asked him for his phone no which he gave me twice (different nos!). Did a 1471, his no. is 00212340181. 0021 is Morocco, tho' his accent was Indian sub continent.
Just be careful out there.

syklops

A referees whistle. When they ask you a question speak very very softly, then... "FWEEEEEEEEEE".

Repeat and see who hangs up first.

A guy in the UK was fed up of these calls so he got his number made into a premium rate number and started making money from them. I never get those calls but if I did I'd have a lot of fun.

Khannie

I got one once. We have only linux in this house. I told him out straight that I thought he was a bad person for trying to scam people. He tried to assure me. I continued telling him that he was a bad person and explained that we had only linux. He hung up.