A indian guy called me in what sounded like a scam, he knew my name and address and was saying that "the windows computer registered at this address has a problem with it"
I have worked in the IT sector for many years and I keep close tabs on my computers and would know if something was up so I was not amused so I asked him "which computer are you referring to? which computer is registered to this address?"
He replied "I'm not talking about the computer make, I mean the windows operating system, like windows xp, windows 7, windows 8"
So I said "which version of windows is registered to this address?"
he couldn't answer and started with again saying "I'm calling because you have problem with your computer"
I then informed him I was no interested and told him to remove my name from his calling list.
He replied saying "he can not do that, then he started with his spiel again.
I said "Yes you can remove my name from your calling list, it is the law that if I ask you to remove my name from your list you have to"
Again he said "I can not do that"
I kept at him until he hung up on me.
Hopefully that'll be enough to keep him from calling me again.
(I'm guessing they are using one of the many public report databases that have names addresses etc or they could even be using a copy of the many financial databases that were hacked that include name, address, phone numbers etc)
A indian guy called me in what sounded like a scam, he knew my name and address and was saying that "the windows computer registered at this address has a problem with it"
I have worked in the IT sector for many years and I keep close tabs on my computers and would know if something was up so I was not amused so I asked him "which computer are you referring to? which computer is registered to this address?"
He replied "I'm not talking about the computer make, I mean the windows operating system, like windows xp, windows 7, windows 8"
So I said "which version of windows is registered to this address?"
he couldn't answer and started with again saying "I'm calling because you have problem with your computer"
I then informed him I was no interested and told him to remove my name from his calling list.
He replied saying "he can not do that, then he started with his spiel again.
I said "Yes you can remove my name from your calling list, it is the law that if I ask you to remove my name from your list you have to"
Again he said "I can not do that"
I kept at him until he hung up on me.
Hopefully that'll be enough to keep him from calling me again.
(I'm guessing they are using one of the many public report databases that have names addresses etc or they could even be using a copy of the many financial databases that were hacked that include name, address, phone numbers etc)
Caller type: Scammer
Number: 359-014-2524