I haven't received on of those calls for awhile (maybe because I missed them while bouncing in and out of the hospital). Got a call early this morning. Caller had an obvious Indian accent. Said he was calling because he was "with Windows" and that they had detected a problem with my Windows-based computer. If I would just go to the computer and follow his instructions, he would walk me through correcting the alleged problem.
Right.
As always, at that point I hung up. But ... this time he called right back to ask why I had hung up on him. I told him, "Because you're a scammer trying to get access to my computer."
He assured me that he was not a scammer, that he was "with Windows." So I said, 'So you work for Microsoft."
He said, "No, Microsoft is a manufacturer. You don't have a hardware problem, you have a software problem. Windows is an operating system, so it's software."
I hung up again and he didn't call back.
They're getting more persistent. The scam muct not be going as well now that word has gotten out.
