You're not the only one. There are several Freepers who have gotten similar calls.
Usually it's the guy from India (I asked him where he was) who says he works for Microsoft and their 'logs' show all these 'errors' on my computer.
Twice he called, and both times I enjoyed playing along with his 'solution'. Of course, I was only using functions that displayed things, and never did anything he asked that I knew would modify my computer.
When he would ask me how many of 'this' or 'that' showed up on my computer, I would make up numbers.
Since his reaction was always the same ("OH, MY GOD") I knew he was lying about everything and after tiring of his games, I would hang up.
I just don’t have the patience nor the time to string them along. When I was younger I sometimes used to do stuff like that. Now that I am a senior citizen, I try to avoid all phone conversations that I haven’t initiated.
My cell phone has names for all phone calls that I might need to talk to. If I get a number with no name, I just ignore it. I also don’t answer the phone in the morning, because that’s normally the only time I actually go to sleep after a night of insomnia.
I have told everyone that if they want to talk to me call in the afternoon, so I don’t feel bad about not answering.
The last time I got a call like that I strung the guy along for 20 minutes. He kept asking me to look for keys on my keyboard to press, and I told him I couldn’t find them. What he didn’t know was that as he was walking me through the process in painstaking detail, I was actually reading off the keys on an old electric typewriter in the corner of my office. LOL.