Someone with an Indian accent called Me on My phone and said they were from Microsoft, the phone number 99999423575 is associated with a scammer I've read, beware and don't answer! Me I promptly hung up, others have said they've been told they had downloaded a virus and the caller wanted to fix this and will call back, Me I made sure to make them a contact and I gave their number a unique ring tone, one that I use for calls that I don't answer.

I've downloaded nothing and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware confirms that I have no virus or other such nasty on My PC and yes the program is up to date.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=99999423575&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSPG

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Someone with an Indian accent called Me on My phone and said they were from Microsoft, the phone number 99999423575 is associated with a scammer I've read, beware and don't answer! Me I promptly hung up, others have said they've been told they had downloaded a virus and the caller wanted to fix this and will call back, Me I made sure to make them a contact and I gave their number a unique ring tone, one that I use for calls that I don't answer.

I've downloaded nothing and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware confirms that I have no virus or other such nasty on My PC and yes the program is up to date.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=99999423575&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSPG

I have got perhaps more than 20 calls from "Windows software departement" wanting to help me to get rid of viruses.
Actually they are wellknown and calling from Calcutta.
It's been going on for more than three years.
Fun With Indian Phone Scammers Claiming to be Microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te-jnS_Dq0

Even my GF have got several calls from them despite she has no computer:)

Good move Vic!

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I generally don't answer numbers from outside the Chicago area. If it's really important, they can leave me a voice mail. If I get repeated junk calls from the same number, my phone will let me put it on an auto-reject list so it never rings. (Sometimes these still leave VMs, though, and then I have to waste time listening to it to see what it is.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

...and here in the UK dialing a number starting with "999" will get you through to the emergency services control room, and a nice person there ensure that you get the service you require ;-)

Said emergency services take a "very dim view" of people publishing phone numbers that may appear to be connected with their services. Luck people just get to see their name in print, others have been known to spend some time in one of Her Majesty's "bed and breakfast" establishments...

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Everone I know is programed into my phone. If there is no caller id or a number not a name, I don't answer.

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Vic, I got the same call, only my accented voice said that he was from the "Windows Department and calling about my computer."

I said, "Oh my goodness! This is a scam. Please remove me from your call list and please stop doing this for a living. It is not nice."

The man actually yelled at me. He said "How do you know? LISTEN TO ME!!!"

At that point I was more insulted than amused and I said, angrily, "Don't shout at me. You called me and I'm the one giving you good advice!!! You are being rude, crude and tatooed." Good day. (Click)

My apologies to readers with skin art...

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Good on you as well.
One can only hope these
people get caught!

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Well; being on Vonage my home phone qualifies me to use Nomorobo to block Sales, Marketing, or any other Call Center call. Since these idiots all work in a Call Center environment, these calls are all blocked by Nomorobo. Any Call Center calls that do somehow get through/past Nomorobo can be manually added to either Vonage's block list, or Nomorobo's block list.

Since adding Nomorobo to my phone, and my parents' phones, we've eliminated third party callers. All we get now are friends and family; just the way we used to have our phones in the 80's and before. :-)

Call Center calls that are allowed by Nomorobo are Medical Offices, Pharmacies, and School alert systems. These systems have a Nomorobo call blast setting that allows them past Nomorobo. (That's how Nomorobo defines it.)

I highly recommend Nomorobo to ALL persons with VoIP phone services. It's EASY to add, and restores privacy to one's phone line(s).

nomorobo.com for details...


TL

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

Good on you as well.
One can only hope these
people get caught!

They are in countries that don't care about this kind of thing or cooperate with the USA on enforcement of such issues.
So, the scammers know they have safe haven, and as long as they get through to enough suckers to make their nefarious endeavors profitable, they shall continue unabated.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Later on I got called back by the same phone number, I ignored it, so far no more call backs since the 2nd time, yet.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I have had the "Hindu" accent on the phone too. "Do you know why your computer is running slow?"
For $200.00 and giving us remote access. Your computer will run faster. I was thinking .

I know why my computer is running slow. I am running this "resource heavy" program called SETI@HOME.

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I just asked them.........which computer they were asking about.....I have 9 online.
Uh, let me see, would that be xyz?

DUH.......no, you lose.

Might be that other one? No, son, you lost the test. You are poking about whre you should not be...........silence.
Uh, you ain't gonna kill me for this?

No, son. Not today.
Get your s''t together and quit bothering good folks.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

LOL!

I know why My PC is running slow, My motherboard needs to be replaced, I have the replacement motherboard, but I need a new faster X3480 cpu and a new Alphacool Eisberg 120 cpu watercooler, of course that's about $308, with shipping, but that is for sometime in the spring of 2016. Plus I run Seti@Home, once fixed, it'll be eat My dust...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Since I use a pre-paid (aka "burner") phone from TF, I get charged for all incoming and outgoing calls and voicemails I answer... I DO NOT TO ANSWER ANY PHONE NUMBER that is NOT in my calling list.

These "tele-scammers" rarely (less than 0.1%) leave any message and their robo-dialers usually only let it ring 5 times before hanging up and moving on to the next (sequential) phone number on the list. A real (live) person will generally by force of habit let it ring 7 or more times if you don't have and answering machine or voicemail.

Once you have answered one of their calls your number is added to their "database" for MORE tele-scam calls by them and other scammers.

Go to http://800notes.com and search their database for the vast number of M$ "repair" scam numbers these SCAMMERS use.

I can attest that Nomorobo works GREAT!!! I set it up on my parents landline and since then (about 6 months ago) the number of "junk" calls has been reduced to just one in the past 30 days and once I reported/added that number to their nomorobo block list it has not called back.

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I've had such calls from "Microsoft in Calcutta" on a few occasions. (Yes, they even track us down here in southern Africa.) For amusement, I play along with them, pretending to be (and sounding like) a complete idiot. I pretend to be doing what they ask me to on my computer, deliberately taking a few wrong turns and making them go back to repeat some of the steps (just to rile them up and waste a bit more of their time). Once I've been suitably amused, I will typically drop the idiot act, inform them that they've been had, and that they're a bunch of #$%&@!* criminals. This usually leads to a shouting match, and I try to end the call when the caller is in mid-rant!

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Do any of the people who work for these scammers actually think what they are doing is legit?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Here in the land of the cold teams of sales people
show up in small towns to sell all manner of things.
The last few years there are firms that offer new and
improved energy contracts. The contracts are legit'
but most often end up costing more than the standard
generic contract let by the power companies.
The pain is in the sales folks. They are legal, but
because they are poor and unwilling to go to assistance
the contract firm exploits them for their labor. They
end up in town in the morning and they then knock on
every door to disrupt and generally try any ruse to get
some poor old senior (Me) to sign up for all this good news.
Of course most get upset having to get the salesmen/women
off their front steps. One of the kickers is that the teams of
workers have no money,
so they must wait until their rides show up at the end
of the day to get back to the big city. They go all day
with no food! Some kind old timers don't buy the contracts,
but they try to get them to take sandwiches and coffee,
water, or juice.
I remember being young and having to work at the slave
market, but I thank God on high that I never had to go
the sales rout for one of those kinds of jobs. We are just
now trying to change the system to eliminate this abuse.

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Angela I have had these callers three times the last one I was very rude to I wont repeat what I said as there are young ladies present suffice to say that was about two years ago haven't heard from the since.

Vic, I got the same call, only my accented voice said that he was from the "Windows Department and calling about my computer."

I said, "Oh my goodness! This is a scam. Please remove me from your call list and please stop doing this for a living. It is not nice."

The man actually yelled at me. He said "How do you know? LISTEN TO ME!!!"

At that point I was more insulted than amused and I said, angrily, "Don't shout at me. You called me and I'm the one giving you good advice!!! You are being rude, crude and tatooed." Good day. (Click)

My apologies to readers with skin art...

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

I've had such calls from "Microsoft in Calcutta" on a few occasions. (Yes, they even track us down here in southern Africa.) For amusement, I play along with them, pretending to be (and sounding like) a complete idiot. I pretend to be doing what they ask me to on my computer, deliberately taking a few wrong turns and making them go back to repeat some of the steps (just to rile them up and waste a bit more of their time). Once I've been suitably amused, I will typically drop the idiot act, inform them that they've been had, and that they're a bunch of #$%&@!* criminals. This usually leads to a shouting match, and I try to end the call when the caller is in mid-rant!

LOL. I di that one time myself. My wife kept getting a call from some clown saying he was from micosoft saying our windows was infected. I was allways at work and she would say call when hesd at home. They called her for a week straighjt telling her the problem needed to be fixed. She told them she did not know a thing about computers. I guess they thought she would give in. I had told her it was scam right off.
They did call when I was at home. I tried to understand his thick accent. I did what you did and played along. I only lasted 10 minutes before I told him he was trying to hack my computer. He got ticked off but I hung up on him. So far no calls for 2 years.

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