I received a phone call this morning (Saturday) at 6:30 am from an Indian (from India) person. At first, I thought the person was female, but he introduced himself as John. He/she claimed he was a tech person for Microsoft and that my computer was sending out viruses to companies. I told him that couldn't be possible because my computer was not on. He then proceeded to explain that it was doing it on another day. I told him, through my sleep hazed thoughts, that I am on the Federal DO NOT Call list and to please remove my number from his list. He said his call was not from a call list that his call was legitimate and that he could prove it if I would get on my computer and type in some numbers. I asked him what his company name was. He would not give it to me.I hung up. He called back directly and proceeded to press me to get on my computer. I told him he was calling at 6:30 in the morning and we're all asleep. He apologized and said he would call back later. I said, "please don't" and hung up. At 9:00 am, I receive a call from New York. (odd area code too). He greets me again and says, "This is John. Do you remember I said I would call you back?" I said, "Yes, and I told you not to." He then pressed his concerns that my computer was really causing problems and that I needed to deal with it. I asked him again for his company's name. He said he was a 3rd party company working for Microsoft. I pressed him to give me his company name. He would not. I then told him that what he's claiming about my computer is not possible. I have firewalls and antiviral software. He said that didn't matter. He then began to explain that hackers are still using my computer to send these hacks/viruses to other companies.

I began thinking this through without giving him too much information. It was obvious that he was trying to get access to my computer. I'm sure that if I were to follow his instructions and we found that my computer wasn't the culprit, he would ask if I had other computers in my home. I remembered that he had mentioned that his technician identified my computer as a Windows machine... and that he was a Microsoft 3rd part tech person. I have three different Windows versions on 4 machines and Linux on another. So, I feinted to him and stumbled over my words saying, "Wait! You said Windows?" He said "Yes." I then said, "Well, then that is really not possible because I have a Linux machine." He stumbled over his words saying, "Wait, what? That can't be... Just one moment, let me have my tech person double check that information. Can you hold on?" I said, "Yeah, sure." He put me on hold and I hung up. He has not called me back.

Please be very careful with this guy. He's been around for a couple of years, now. I've received his call before about a year ago. My mother, in another state, received the same call. She asked for his phone number so she could call him back. We took that number, which was one digit off from this number, and reported it to the Do Not Call website. This is definitely a scam! Never, ever give any personal information to someone who has called YOU! If you think the call is legit, get their phone number and call them back. You could even Google the number like you did this one. If it comes back as legitimate, then call them back. Be safe!

Got a call - told me I was having computer issues.  Fact was he came off sketchy to beign with.  Funny thing is the call happened after I tried to download a driver remove tool form the net.  Thinking it was a scam - I hung up.

I just got woken up by a call from this number. Claimed to be a guy called Shane, or something like that. Was using an Indian accent and said he had moved to California. Interesting how I search his number and it comes up in New York. He claimed to be part of a company that detected hackers on my computer, but claimed this was a third party company. Had me connect to the internet and then run event viewer. Showed me 34,000 errors on the computer. He acted like that was a major crisis, said that was all the hackers that had accessed my computer. But these errors had stretched back as far as 2007. And I didn't get the laptop till after 2009, and got it new. Did a little research and found those errors are normal. he then took me to AMMYY.com and wanted me to download their stuff. While I was lying to him saying it was downloading and taking forever, I was really looking up what he was having me do and found indications that it was a scam. So I told him my browser, Google Chrome, crashed and that what I saw told me he was scamming me. So he had me run this black box thing, and told me my computer's ID saying that should validate who he was. so I played along a little longer. He told me then to go to a totally different site, called Team Viewer. The entire time he was appearing to try to strike up "conversation" but it was obvious his real motives. He was asking me who all uses my computer, what they use it for, what I use it for like is it business, recreation, study. When I told him my dad uses my laptop, he began asking me what kind of job my dad does. So, it would seem what he was really doing is fishing for information to figure out how much money he could get access to through my computer. I led on like our family is really suffering financially, that we don't have much money and it's a day to day struggle to get by... which isn't far from the truth really. I then asked him how much it would take to fix my computer. He said he'd talk to his technician and see, but it he would try to get it so I didn't pay more than 100 dollars. What? Only a hundred? Sounds too good to be true. That's cause it probably is. I told him how Best Buy said they'd charge like 140+ bucks to fix one virus. He said that was ridiculous and I'd pay less than a hundred for all my computer's problems. previously in the conversation, I mentioned how I was getting loads of popups on my computer these last few days. He said his technician was responsible for doing that. That they were trying to get my attention. Which partly made sense, as the majority of the popups were telling me my computer was running slow and had problems. But I am also getting ones about arrest records now public, some mother who has Botox scientists furious with her new $4 wrinkle remover set, some Ninja video game, and countless ones for some FLV Player. So why would his technician be sending me those to? Yeah, I wasn't buying it. He was doing a fantastic job at lying. But I could see though the holes in his stuff, especially since while talking to him, I was looking up similar scams about what he was telling me to download, that would grant his technician remote access to my computer so he could take out the hackers. Everything pointed to it being a scam. He was doing a great job at it to, with his fake Indian accent, and his "Knowlage" of my computer. It scares me that he knew that number, and he knew my phone number. So I need to be on my toes. But he could easily scam many unsuspecting people this same way. So watch yourself! I lied to him again on the second thing I was downloading about it going slow, when I wasn't downloading it at all. Then I hung up on him. He kept calling, leaving a voice mail saying he thinks we got discontented again. So watch out, I was close to falling for it, but I didn't

Got two calls from this number about one week apart. A male voice that said he was from Microsoft and that there was something wrong with my computer. The first time I cut him off and the second time I gave him a blast and he hung up. If there ever is another time he'll get a super blast.