Nuisance Phone Calls

A while ago, fed up with the continuous marketing calls, hang ups and offers of dubious technical assistance  I had our phone company add caller display and silent call rejection to our account.

The rejection of silent calls has cut them down but a few still get to my land line.  In the space of about 40 minutes, earlier in the week, I received 3 calls, all hang ups when the answering machine started.  The words "the other person has cleared" is the norm on it these days!

I checked the numbers online.  Two of the calls appeared to be from a number used by the notorious Microsoft technical department.

Now, I am obviously a bit tech savvy and I have been known in the past to string these chaps along, just when they think they have scored I tell them in no uncertain terms that they should stop calling me.

This morning I was minding my own business when the phone rang.  I recognised the number from earlier in the week on the caller display.  On the spur of the moment I answered it with the phrase "Directory for which town please".

I have not used the directory enquiries service for quite some time as it is much easier to look it up on the web.  But I thought I would try using their greeting.

The heavily accented lady at the other end of the phone spoke and asked me how I was today.  My reply was the same "Directory for which town please".  I think I repeated it 3 times before she said "oh is this a business?"  I think I have the wrong number, sorry to disturb you and she hung up.

I have not had any further calls from that number today.

I will be interested to see what happens over the next week.

Remember these "technical" people posing as Microsoft Support are not really trying to help, they are attempting to relieve you of your cash while infecting your PC at the same time.

If you are in doubt run malwarebytes, superantispyware or/and any free anti virus software.  I can recommend Avast Free Anti-Virus.  Or call a local computer repair service.   I know a good one for the Essex area!!