May 27, 2014
I just got a phone number from 323-213-7689, where a "Microsoft" employee claimed that my computer had been compromised and was sending thousands of error reports to Microsoft daily. They traced my information and stated that my internet connection was being used to upload pornography from somewhere in Mexico, and they would report me to the FBI if they couldn't resolve the issue.
Given my computer had recently gone through curiousness, in the form of sectors on my hard drive that went bad, which conveniently crippled my virus protection and disk management software, I was willing to investigate. His introduction was plausible, and I HAD been on the phone with Microsoft a few days earlier.
When I asked the guy on the line, "Can I talk to your supervisor?" He replied with a pause, and then said, in the same voice, "This is the supervisor."
I followed up with, "You know, according to the internet, you're a fake tech support, and you're probably going to scam me. Why are you doing this?"
He hung up.