Ian McDonald I got a call from this number - no-one spoke at the other end. I used to get a lot of the "I'm calling from Microsoft support" spam calls, and tried loads of things to get them to stop calling. But the only thing that seemed to work (eventually) was this: when they called I'd pretend to follow their ruse.
I'd let them do the usual speech, and when they asked me if I was at my computer, I'd say no and ask them if they could wait for me to switch on the computer. They'd say 'of course' and I would just put the receiver down and leaving them hanging on. It would usually take them 10-15 minutes to get bored and hang up. But I felt that by wasting their time I might have saved another couple of victims. Anyway, I think they may have put my number on a black list as the calls stopped coming.
How do these guys know who to call. It does not seem to be random and they know what operating systems people have. Is there a shop or unscrupulous employee providing third party information post sale?
90% of PCs run on Windows so it's a pretty safe bet!
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