[dainbramaged]

Another phone scam tried us recently - a guy with an Indian sounding accent says he’s from Microsoft and they have detected a problem with your computer and he needs to access it for repairs. Microsoft doesn’t call you at home, so don’t fall for it.

[Polynikes]

You need to brush up on your Hindi cursing. I used to get those calls then I figured out how to reply in Hindi. Hilarity ensued. No more calls.

http://nawcom.com/swearing/hindi.htm

[Kaslin]

I got a call last week from the 423 area code and like I said I never answer calls from numbers that I do not recognize. But I type the number in search to find out what the number is from.

Several peoples were exactly saying what you did, about a guy with an Indian sounding accent and microsoft

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yeah, one of my co-workers got a call from the Indian Guy from Microsoft.

[logi_cal869]

Another phone scam tried us recently - a guy with an Indian sounding accent says he’s from Microsoft and they have detected a problem with your computer and he needs to access it for repairs

I was visiting my parents a few weeks back and my father handed me the phone after it rang; same 'support' a$$hats. I played along, all through going through the event viewer and filtering errors, right up until he sent me to a remote access site. I then laid into him, yelling "HANG UP/HANG UP" interspersed with expletives until he terminated the call.

footnote: Viewing the Event Viewer as a result of the call alerted me that my parents' laptop was experiencing severe errors in IE (thousands of errors). Fixed that for them. Ironic.

[zot]

Another phone scam tried us recently - a guy with an Indian sounding accent says he’s from Microsoft and they have detected a problem with your computer and he needs to access it for repairs. Microsoft doesn’t call you at home, so don’t fall for it.

Heh! I got this one, but I only use MACs.