I didn't know where to put this at, but over the last few days, I was getting a phone call from 760-589-2020, I'd say hello, and no one answered, after the 1st call this number kept on calling Me back, so I got an app for My phone to block or hang up on the guy, the app is called"Call Blocker", it's free, so I did a search after I put this app on My phone, and found out the caller was supposedly from Death Valley, which is unlikely as almost nobody lives there, in any case I blocked the number and after a few days of that, and the calls stopped.

Interesting that there are posts about this number at several other places but NOT at 800notes.com.
800 Notes is usually the first site I check of several web sites when looking up pesky phone number(s) since it has the LARGEST collection of reports about (un)known phone numbers.
Zoom, can you post some info about the call over there to help others out?

It appears to be a SPOOFED number according to my source at the verify phone web site:

Service Provider: O1 Communications Inc - CA,
Provider Type: Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
Phone Type: Landline/POTS/Broadband/Plain Old Telephone Service

I'd love to post more about this, but I can't, the caller never said or did anything, besides call Me, that is, no sales pitch or anything, just dead air, quite weird really.

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I often get these calls on my Grandmother's land line.
I enjoy the Monday approach a lot as well, although I am typically not as aggressive.

I like to tell them that I am on crutches and it will take me a minute to get to the computer, and just place the phone face down somewhere near the TV so its really loud when they are waiting.
Of course I have walked through with them up until the point where I am installing Team Viewer then immediately have to use the rest room and we hook back to the phone being face down near the TV.

It's quite an interesting scam, and it's sad that they have likely compromised a lot of people's computers.

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-"Young" James

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking

My GF just got a call from "Windows technical department" as they usually say to us here.
Yes. Not Microsoft.
Microsoft does not make unsolicited phone calls to help you fix your computer.
I wonder what company Windows is:)
Still after all these years they trying to scam.

And they speak English with a very heavy Indian accent.
Subtitles please:)

"Do you know who you are calling"?
"Errr..."
"GCHQ"
Click Brrrrrrrrr

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

I never had one.....
But I am prepared.

OH, thank you for finally calling.............
I have been trying to get through for days now................
This virus seems to have been trying to get to your servers for days now, can you help me get through?

I just need your password and I can get through your firewall.
All I need to help you is
It is............................click...............buz...........................................

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Just read that people are getting scam emails supposedly from ‘service@amazon.co.uk’,

Amazon email scam could cost up to £750 - here's what you should look out for

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Just read that people are getting scam emails supposedly from ‘service@amazon.co.uk’,

I got several that seem very similar from 'service @paypal.co.uk', Oct-Nov last year.

The only button that I pressed was 'print'.

I have not used paypal for at least 5 years and my card details have changed since then, but to be on the safe side I visited my bank.

The bank said that they had had customers with problems with this particular e-mail, but only those that had 'clicked the link', but to be on the safe side they offered and I accepted a text messaging service that notifies me whenever a withdrawl over a certain amount is made from my current account.

I must admit that my bank is fairly good, I have never had problems with money going out wrongly, but have on a couple of occasions had purchases delayed when the amount was higher than usual and 'outside my normal usage'.

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Kevin

I got an email the other day that purported to be from a law firm, claiming they had just received a parking ticket in my name and I should pay it right away.

The bank that runs the credit card I use for pretty much everything has a text message fraud system that's easy to respond to, if I pay attention to it. It also occasionally has funny triggers. Sunday was the end of my cycle and I paid it off by Friday. The last use was Thursday, here in town. Tuesday morning, I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud.

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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.

... I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud.

Had similar thing happen to be some years back... Used my cc at a Red Box (DVD vending machine) less than 1 mile from house where I attempted to rent 2 DVD's and it was flagged as fraud. Odd thing was I had been using that exact cc at that same box for 3+ years with no problems.

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Oh my goodness, it finally happened. I just got the Windows Service Department call. I was able to keep him talking for about 35 minuets before he hung up on me. Wish I had a recorder in my office. I was having fun.

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I got it this morning too. I had a wireless keyboard in my bedroom closet so I grabbed it and strung him along for about 20 minutes.

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New Twist. Left a message, my windows license is to be terminated, call a fraud number. As I write this on my Mac.

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Just been checking my e-mail. Got this on Sat :-)

I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun.

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<computer voice>
"Your Windows license key has been expired, to further information call Un-7 1-312-BIG-SCAM if you do not call your windows will be terminated over."
</computer voice>

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A new variation
<female computer voice>
844-BIG-SCAM to renew your microsoft services. its 844-BIG-SCAM.
</female computer voice>

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I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun.

LOL....then he would really have a hard time believing that I have 8 of them running.
Bring it on, scammers, bring it on.

Meow!

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."