My mother unfortunately refuses to get an "unlisted" phone number and has been rung several times by people with Indian(?) accents claiming to be Microsoft staff wanting to "repair her PC" over the phone. I'm assuming these scumbags trawl the online White Pages looking for random numbers to call, and then get the victim to download malware and/or disclose their credit card numbers, etc.
Fortunately my mother hasn't fallen for it and just hangs up on them. I intercepted one such call and the caller got rude when I accused her of being a scammer.
Suggestion: tell the scammer you have a Macintosh, not a PC. I would be interested to hear their response to that one.
Fortunately my mother hasn't fallen for it and just hangs up on them. I intercepted one such call and the caller got rude when I accused her of being a scammer.
Suggestion: tell the scammer you have a Macintosh, not a PC. I would be interested to hear their response to that one.