Scam phonecall - the old "I'm from microsoft" one

James J · 23 May 2011 at 15:29

Just had some Indian guy with truly awful english ring asking for my dad, saying that his PC has a virus and that they need to remotely connect to it to get rid of it lol. I read about the same garbage attempt at accessing someones PC on here a while back so thought I'd let you guys know that it still goes on.

trigger-happy · 23 May 2011 at 15:32

You should do this:

Pestilence · 23 May 2011 at 15:33

Sounds grim.

Alex53 · 23 May 2011 at 15:33

I'm not surprised. I call people at work all day long and frankly I could be anyone gathering all the information I want. Your average office joe doesn't know and doesn't care much.

Cosimo · 23 May 2011 at 15:37

trigger-happy said:
You should do this:

Philz0r · 23 May 2011 at 15:38

3 people i know have had this call.

LeJosh · 23 May 2011 at 15:39

Be casually racist and say "I'm sorry, I don't remember ordering any curry."

Or is that actuall racism? The line...

JBuk · 23 May 2011 at 15:39

can i have your ip adress to remotely connect?

yer, it's 127.0.0.1

Steve2000 · 23 May 2011 at 15:40

I had it last Friday afternoon. They were from "Windows Support" and tried to get me to download TeamViewer so they could VNC in to my PC.

They also had me open Run and type in "inf", they said this is a list of viruses on the machine and they need to get rid of them for me.

trigger-happy · 23 May 2011 at 15:42

JBuk said:
can i have your ip adress to remotely connect?

yer, it's 127.0.0.1

lol that will be funny.

Rexxar · 23 May 2011 at 15:44

This will be interesting if for any reason i get it, i'll string them along for as long as possible :-D

Philtor · 23 May 2011 at 15:45

Should have told them you have a Mac

pingwing · 23 May 2011 at 15:50

Should have let them log into a virtual pc to see what rubbish they put on it...

Or said something silly about foreign food

Usher · 23 May 2011 at 15:52

Had this call Friday evening, wished I hadn't hung up now & strung them along saying yes I'm online now, what do I do next

NvidiaDan · 23 May 2011 at 15:53

Had one of these calls a month or two ago, I kept them going for so long I actually revived death threats from them and was told they were sending some guys to my postcode to kill me.

Steve2000 · 23 May 2011 at 15:55

NvidiaDan said:
Had one of these calls a month or two ago, I kept them going for so long I actually revived death threats from them and was told they were sending some guys to my postcode to kill me.

You'd better watch out then.

NvidiaDan · 23 May 2011 at 15:57

Steve2000 said:
You'd better watch out then.

Well he told me they would be round in 10 minutes, this was around 2 months ago.

djshauny1 · 23 May 2011 at 15:59

lol crazy

Gishee · 23 May 2011 at 16:05

I had 3 of these calls in 1 day about 2 months ago. Didn't know they were still doing it.

I like the way they call themselves "The Microsoft Virus Prevention Unit" first time I heard it I so wanted someone to come round with a virus removal van and a firewall for a shield and a USB stick in the other hand. Would have been epic.... awww good times

emetic · 23 May 2011 at 16:05

Had this last week sometime, early evening. Managed 12 minutes before I eventually got bored.