971-217-9500

trying to warn me about my computer...scam had a thick foreign accent too

Claims to work for Windows, foreign accent heavy, lots of noise in the background..other voices.

Do not speak to this guy is my advice, I hung up on him. Windows, and that is how he referred to himself,

no name was given, does not call people like this. Be aware.

Got a call from a guy with an Asiatic accent who said he was calling from Windows and that many messages were received from my computer etc ect... I told him that I did not know whee is was coming from and was not interested and hung up on him. Actually he called twice only answered once. Be aware do not give any information to them!!

I received a call from this morning, at 7:00 Am, Calgary, Alberta time, ( when I was planning to sleep in) , I answered, and I said twice Hello!  but  nobody said anything, then they hung up on me.

Got a call this morning from Mr. Heavy Accent. My wife has had calls from these folks all week and she just yells at them and hangs up. Today, I had some time on my hands, so, after flushing the toilet and getting the dogs all wound up and barking, I finally sat down in front of my computer and slowly followed his directions. Faking ignorance and misunderstanding, I wasted 15 minutes of his time and all we got to was the event viewer before he hung up. Not two minutes later, phone calls from the same area code and prefix with the last four of 9518 and 9514, plus one from 425-406-9022 all came in, which I ignored.

I think this creep qualifies his calls- if you sound threatening he hangs up, if you sound like a mark he engages you. If he does talk to you, call him All the  worst namea you can think of.
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Scam.  Claimed to be from "Microsoft IT."  He wanted to prove he was from Microsoft by showing me that he knew a CLSID number on my computer.  That isn't was CLSID numbers are for, and they're they same on every computer.  He said he would "fix" my computer for a nominal fee.

Technical details of the scam are here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fo ... 24-eebf251c4c4f