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I’ve been phoned three times for the same thing. The caller id’s himself from “windows technology”…the third time it was a woman, and all have what sounds to me like
an Indian accent. They said I had a virus on my computer and if I’d turn on my computer and type in what they told me and paraphrasing the rest it would fix my computer. Hung right up on him the first time… after a few choice words. Second time I asked him for a phone number and got what he called a call back number.
Asked where he was and said Brooklyn, NY. Asked him what kind of system I had, just to see what he’d say and he said XP, and kept up with the ‘if you type in what
I tell you’ nonsense. Could not understand what his name was at all, the accent. So I asked him what the _ _ _ _ caused him to think I was dumb enough to type
anything into my computer that he said. Then I reverted back to my crude construction worker self and gave him a few more choice words… talking about his mother and stuff and hung up again. Third time a gal called, same guess on the Indian accent, and same sales pitch about they discovered a virus on my machine.
This time(my phone is a landline desktop type) I BEAT the mouthpiece on the desktop for 15-30 seconds or so and then set it softly in its cradle. My landline is Vonage and I have an old US WEST caller ID that works and they come up as Anonymous w/ no number. Maybe next time I’ll record the phone call, after the proper
verbal announcement, and see how much they are willing to reveal.

My main reason for replying was to find out more about your cleaning up somebody elses computer. Since I have a moderately low geek factor the idea of having
someone look at my computers is worth asking about.

Here’ what caught my eye: ” But it astounds me how she as well as many others won’t give even 15 minutes to me on what needs to be covered or 30 minutes of their time once a month such as during Patch Tuesday week so they can pro-actively keep their computer well maintained and secured but fall for a stranger over the phone to do their thing (maybe even gain access to their computer) and even pay them”.

If this is a service you offer, I’d be interested in that and willing to pay for what I get. I hope I’m not out of line on this forum asking about prices and stuff. You can
send it to my email. If this is out of line then I apologize in advance and hope I don’t get kicked off this forum.