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Post by roryjax on Mar 18, 2019 13:51:47 GMT -5
Here's a new one we got on the phone today: Microsoft Technical support, You need to call us because we have a refund for you. You worked with Microsoft Technical support several months ago and you have refund coming.
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 18, 2019 13:58:10 GMT -5
Here's a new one we got on the phone today: Microsoft Technical support, You need to call us because we have a refund for you. You worked with Microsoft Technical support several months ago and you have refund coming. This is a very, very old scam, at least 10 years old. Microsoft will NEVER call you unless you ARE working with them and they have told you they will call you back. IF this happens that call will occur within 24 hours. Even those are very rare. Ignore these calls, block the caller number and hopefully you have caller i.d. and that will help you NOT answering. Anytime you answer one of these junk calls, even if you don't speak to anyone, this tells the spammer that your number is a good number to keep calling and they also will sell your number to other scam/spammers. |
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Post by budgall on Mar 18, 2019 15:19:40 GMT -5
Didn't Bill Gates make phone calls years ago giving away money, maybe Microsoft is reactivating the program 😊.
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 18, 2019 16:12:27 GMT -5
Didn't Bill Gates make phone calls years ago giving away money, maybe Microsoft is reactivating the program 😊. Oh come on! This is a well proven hoax that was started back in the 1990's and it still pops up from time to time when idiots get bored decide to get it started again.
Since I know a fellow who had his bank account nearly stripped of $6000 until he got a hold placed on it because of one of these "Microsoft Tech Support Call" scams, these types of calls are scams and should always be noted as such.
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Post by budgall on Mar 18, 2019 17:36:14 GMT -5
That comment was a bit of sick humor on my part. However I was at a clients site when "Bill" called my client to give him money. It was the first time I ever talked with "Bill". Years later I did meet, talk and shook the hand of the real "Bill".
Like you, I know several people who have been taken by "Tech Support" scams and one who lost several thousand dollars to an IRS scam.
I have not had a "Microsoft Tech Support Call" personally for a long time now. The last call I had I managed to keep the "Technician" on the phone for almost an hour before he realized I knew more about computers then he did. My wife on the other hand gets several calls a month from a "Microsoft Tech Support Technician". I have accused her of having an "affair" with her "Technician" but she continues to deny it.
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 18, 2019 19:55:13 GMT -5
That comment was a bit of sick humor on my part. However I was at a clients site when "Bill" called my client to give him money. It was the first time I ever talked with "Bill". Years later I did meet, talk and shook the hand of the real "Bill". Like you, I know several people who have been taken by "Tech Support" scams and one who lost several thousand dollars to an IRS scam. I figured you were joking but...you know. I've known two people who were taken by this scam, 1st was my 95 year old uncle, who lives only on SS and a very meager $75 per month pension. They took him for $250 to start & then asked for $250 more. Thankfully he called me before he paid the second $250. He'd paid them with some sort of pay card he got at Wal-Mart and they, very nicely, got him his money back when he told the clerk what happened. The 2nd person was my friend I mentioned in my other post. He had paid $250 by giving them his credit card number over the phone and then giving the scammer control over his computer. His wife called me using her cell phone and I told her to pull the plug on the computer, which she did. I went out & cleaned the computer. The next day she checked their credit card balance and besides the $250 he gave them whoever it was had made purchases totaling an additional $6000. She called the bank & they locked the card and removed the charges.
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Post by budgall on Mar 18, 2019 22:19:29 GMT -5
With all the publicity these scams receive I find it amazing that so many people still get scammed.
To everyone reading this - Reread Judy's quote from a prior message in this thread (quoted below):
"Microsoft will NEVER call you unless you ARE working with them and they have told you they will call you back. IF this happens that call will occur within 24 hours. Even those are very rare. Ignore these calls, block the caller number and hopefully you have caller i.d. and that will help you NOT answering. Anytime you answer one of these junk calls, even if you don't speak to anyone, this tells the spammer that your number is a good number to keep calling and they also will sell your number to other scam/spammers."
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Post by roryjax on Mar 20, 2019 12:54:16 GMT -5
I can not believe so many people would fall for that. But they saw the words 'REFUND' It's called GREED--We never answer a call we don't recognize on the caller ID machine.. This one went to the answering machine.
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Post by jholland1964 on Mar 20, 2019 13:07:53 GMT -5
I can not believe so many people would fall for that. But they saw the words 'REFUND' It's called GREED--We never answer a call we don't recognize on the caller ID machine.. This one went to the answering machine. Sorry, but I would not call that greed. If you are being offered a refund why would that be greedy to accept it? IF you were a person who had actually paid for assistance from MS, and in some instances you DO have to pay, then why would it be greedy to take it? You obviously had not recently paid MS for assistance and it is likely that many or most people receiving this scam call have not either but in the thousands of calls these scammers make odds are that there ARE some people in that group who have paid for assistance from them and that is how the scammers bring them in. The scammers are greedy but those willing to accept a refund certainly are not greedy.
Have you never accepted a refund for work done where you were overcharged? If you did were you greedy in accepting that refund? Just wondering.
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