Rumor is a lot of those Indian Microsoft fraud calls are from legitimate help centers in their off hours.
In other words, legitimate Indian computer help centers that are contacted by Dell, HP, etc to help their customers are doing the fraud calls from their customer lists in the off hours. Dell, HP, etc are innocent in this, the contracted call centers go rogue on their own. Beware. Don’t give anyone remote control of your computer, unless you know who they are and called them first.
I’ve got an HP, he was making noises like, “Well, if you don’t mind losing your computer ..” started asking me to make keystrokes. Hung up and filed e-mail ‘No call’ list complaint (for what good it will do) and after a couple more calls, call screening. Yeah, it smelled bad.
Thanks for the heads up.