Apr 13, 2015
These people call frequently (20 times so far; numbers they have used are 888-210-2109, 929-251-8602, 631-402-9184, and 209-542-2721). They pretend to be from your company's technical support department (that doesn't work very well when they call your home) or try to claim your computer is somehow causing problems on the internet. They play on most people's lack of technical understanding to try to get them to install software on their computer that supposedly solves the "problem" it has, but it actually lets them take control of your computer to send out spam. Inevitably the caller has an Indian accent (the subcontinent, not native American) although they usually say their name is "Mick Johnson" or "John" or some other American-ish sounding name. It's a complete fraud and can be very dangerous.