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#682788 7th Apr 2012 5:32pm
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We got a phone call today from an Indian sounding bloke claiming to be from Microsoft. Apparently our PC had a virus and bla bla bla....

I asked for his number, hung up and called him back...well I called a pet supplies company :-)(http://www.petlondon.net)

Watch yourselves folks!

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This happened to my parents about 12months ago. They had a phone call from an Indian speaking gentleman claiming they had a virus on there pc and his company could clear it free of charge by following his instructions over the phone and keying certain commands into there pc, this would have given them remote access to my parents computer giving them access to passwords and banking details, luckily I was there at the time of the call and spoke to the chap myself, told him pc had frozen and would have to reboot it and could he ring back in 30minutes. I asked for his name and company details, cant remember the company name given but his name was John Smith.....very original....During the 30minutes waiting for his call back I spoke to Merseyside Police computer fraud team and passed all the details to them to investigate, they where aware of the scam and followed it up. The scam company did call back after 30 minutes and I told them that I had spoken to the police and they hung up.......not called since

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I get this call at least once a week !!!

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I had one of these calls the other week,the guy was standing on a busy street.I told him my computers havn't got any viruses & I was too busy to go round turning them all on


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same here - what gimps they think we all are.

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we get these phone calls one time they called and my other half answered the phone they asked what windows have you got and he said very nice double glazed ones than you Indian person hung up

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Originally Posted by kenny2005
We got a phone call today from an Indian sounding bloke claiming to be from Microsoft. Apparently our PC had a virus and bla bla bla....

I asked for his number, hung up and called him back...well I called a pet supplies company :-)(http://www.petlondon.net)

Watch yourselves folks!
i got this last week but it was a woman.Did he asked you to go and switch your pc on?????

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I quite like getting these calls, it's fun to mess with their heads laugh

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I agree, it is so easy to draw them into a crazy conversation as they clearly do not have a clue what they are talking about and their script does not cover loaded questions.I actually told them several times that I had switched on at the wall and the screen was still blank (it wasn't) and he did not twig that I would still needed to switch the PC on. After about 10 minutes he agreed we were getting nowhere.

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As long as you don't do what I once did, to be fair it was about the forth Asian voice on the phone within half an hour, I thought I'd jump in quick and told him "There's fook all wrong with my computer, I've got double glazing, the lofts been insulated and I haven't got cavity walls" and he said "I'm very glad to hear it, will you tell Mrs Bert, the curtains are ready for pick up" smack

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I love it.

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the question is, did u tell mrs bert of the telephone conversation or did u just let her go for the curtains? wink haha

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Yes I got the same last week mind was an indian sounding women

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I get them all the time..

Last time it happened they said they were from a company called Windows and It appears that my Pc is infected..

I told them that I work in I.T. and my computer is fine thank you very much and they hung up..

What worries me is there is some people out there who would fall for this scam..

I'm lovin some of the comments on here though.. smile


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Personally getting a bit fed up of the interuption though. Does their numer show up on caller i.d. ? If i dial 1471 i get 0123456789....

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