I'm aware the PC tech crooks use varying scripts, which all boil down to an absurd premise that bad things are happening to a computer and a stranger on the phone was magically alerted. You're correct that technology companies in general don't go around creating reverse trouble tickets for their customers, much less bombing the whole town with calls until unwitting "appliance user" pigeons respond.

I did not title those discussion links. Those are quoted from the Microsoft pages. Since the scammers want only Microsoft OS users (for now) and many have posed as MSFT techs, it's expedient to refer to both elements of the scheme.

@ Resident47, This number isn't pretending to be Microsoft. But, they are insisting that they're getting some sort of info from a person's Window's computer that it's infested with something. So, it is similar.

The main "verdict" is that _NO_ operating system programming company --_not_ Microsoft, _not_ Apple, and certainly _not_ ANY of the Linux Distributions -- _NO_ operating system programming company makes these types of calls. period.

Anyone who thinks that they do doesn't know anything at all about computers or how to protect their computers or themselves and will fall for ANY scam.

Here's the verdict straight from Microsoft:

Avoid tech support phone scams
https://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

Strange call pretending to be from Microsoft tech support
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/f ... 2e-2ab81645553d

They're using another number, too. It's 302-365-6856.

I know. The bass-turds keep Spoofing new numbers. Put a stop to the ability to Spoof numbers and a good portion of this would be stopped, as well.

You aren't alone. There are numerous posts about this issue.

Call Type: SCAM!!!!! This is a Scam Artist, at best! An extremely dangerous thing to listen to and believe in.

*****READ MY WHOLE POST _BEFORE_ YOU MAKE YOUR POST!!!!!*****

Then simply report what happened. period.

*****NEVER, EVER ALLOW ANYONE WHO CALLS YOU INTO YOUR COMPUTER!!! EVER!!!!!*****

Microsoft NEVER makes calls like this!!!!!! Neither does Apple. And if you're smart enough to use Linux, you're smart enough to know this scam.  

Some moron from another country who can't even understand English, no less speak it, called my land line (which IS on both the National and my State No Call List) to tell me he was "getting 'error codes' from my Windows Computer". I played along with this jack*** for awhile and then informed him that this was impossible because I don't run Windows, I run Linux. This idiotic ignoramus didn't even know what Linux is!!!!! He kept at me and kept at me to do "something" on my computer....I couldn't understand his extremely broken "English". I finally told him that he was a "F****ng Scam Artist". He then asked if I was "abusing" him!?!?!? Oh, this get funnier!!!! I then told him that, "I probably am because [he] was just a F****ng Scam Artist sitting somewhere in China trying to get people to allow him into their computers so he could infest them with malware for the purpose of data theft and to make the computers into Zombie Computers." He STILL kept after me to do whatever it was on my computer that he wanted me to do!!!! I played him along a bit further and then finally tired of the game with the mouse that simply would not die and hung up on the freak. LOL!!!

While I was sitting here typing this that same number called yet, again!!!! This time when I answered there was just silence.