Jul 18, 2012
I had been seeing this number pop up on my phone periodically over the last few weeks, and always ignored it, but since I was expecting a friend's potential place of employment to call me for a reference check, I have been answering numbers that I simply don't recognize. Today was one of those fun times! I received a phone call from (646) 502-6605, which came up as New York. The man said "Hello, Mr.______" which is my father's name (haven't lived with them in 13 years). I then asked "Whom would you like to speak with?" and he just kept going on and on about do I use a computer and blah blah blah. He spoke with a very thick Indian accent, so I had to ask him to repeat himself multiple times. He told me "I know that you use the internet" and guess what? He's correct! I asked him to please identify what organization he was calling me from and he said "I want to make it clear that this is not a place of business. I am making a courtesy call to everyone who uses the Windows operating system." He proceeded to tell me that I have viruses and spyware on my computer that only he can remove. He said "Go ahead and log into your computer right now and tell me what you see." And I said, "I can't." And then he asked "Why not?" And I shared with him that I was busy making dinner for my husband and that I don't have the time to go boot up my computer right now. He told me "I understand" and let me go! Didn't get any aggressive callbacks or anything......lol. I will also be reporting this because I can totally see my grandma falling for this guy's ruse. Ridiculous! :)