daughtersrus
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2002
I'm guessing that they're banking on the fact that lots of folks received laptops and/or devices for Christmas, so the hackers are making their calls now. Be careful, folks.
My caller (who had an Indian accent) addressed himself as "a representative from the Microsoft Corporation", who detected a problem with my computer that required immediate attention. He said he could fix it, but needed me to log on and give him access.
Oh yeah, let me get right on that......
In my most professional voice, I informed him that he was absolutely, positively, in no way whatsoever, a representative from Microsoft. And hung up.
Those people suck.
A few months ago there were calling us every few days. I finally told the guy that I know that it's a scam and that he's wasting his time calling. He tried to convince me it was legit but I kept repeating that I knew it was a scam. The calls stopped for quite awhile but we got every other week in Dec. For those, I just answered and set the phone on the counter for about an hour. I'm not sure if that prevented him from calling anyone else or not but I thought it might annoy him like he annoys the people he calls.