phoned and left no message  - 15 min ago

Called 5 mins ago regarding my windows computer. Called earlier in the day telling me to turn on the computer. Just hung up on him. Has a heavy accent.

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From India.   Lying scam company.   The first callers don't even know what the upper level people are doing.   They simply transfer the call to the next agent once you consent to let them "fix your computer."   They will talk to you until they get you to let them remotely control your computer, that's when it gets dangerous.  I heard a story of them trying to access someone's bank info while talking to a 90 year old.   His son walked into the room saw what was happening and shut off the modem.   Warn the elderly.   Very bad scam.   They call from many different #'s.   Every time they call from a different phone # I place a block for that # on my phone.    I've tried many ways of dealing with this.   So far blocking their calls is best.   They can be persistent.

I got a call from this number today, asking for me by (last) name. When he started his "from the cyber department of Windows" spiel, I said, "Could you please hang on while I call the police?" He actually said yes, and asked if I were going to put him on hold while I called. I said no, I have another phone, and he said "You have 30 seconds". I proceeded to try to call the non-emergency number of the local police but he was counting down before I could do that. So when he got to 4, I said "Hello? I'm calling to report a call from one of those Windows computer scams?" and acted like I'd connected on my other phone. Then I said (to my pretend police call), "What do I have to do?" and then went back to the scam caller and said "Could you please stay on the line so they can trace the call?" He used profanity which I politely said told him he could do back to himself, then he used more and hung up. I don't know if he's now paranoid that I was able to trace the call, or whatever, but it was more fun than just hanging up or using my own profanity. (Other times I've answered calls like that with a whistle blown in the earpiece, enough to hurt, but this was too early in the morning and other members in my house were still asleep.)