Aug 27, 2013
I got a very similar call late last night from a guy with broken English and heavy accent. He claimed he works for Windows Service Centre and his head office has received many error messages recently from MY computer and would like to help me resolve the problem. Luckily I have not turned on my computer for the past few days and therefore a red flag went up immediately. So I asked him how he got a hold of my number and exactly what he would like me to do. The guy said he pulled this number from our account profile (which cannot be true as we would never release any personal information to an online account, so another red flag went up). I didn't quite understand what he said about the things I need to do and became so frustrated with him gibbering in circles. I then told him that I need to report this instance and required his name and number so I could get back to him later. He gave me the same 801 number and said his name was (or sounded like) Peter Smith and insisted on calling him back within TWO minutes (didn't know what's the rush!) Anyway, I got up this morning and did a quick search on the number and, voilà, here are the two postings!!!