Calls from 'Windows OS Support'

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jamesriley94

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So every couple of months I get a phone call, always from a foreign call centre, claiming to be 'Windows Operating System Support'...
If I'm not busy I usually take them for a ride and in the past, their method of telling me I have viruses if by going into event viewer and showing me all the errors in there, to which I usually say there arent any. And then they get confused and transfer me to their manager. In the past, after wasting their time for a good 20 minutes, and being passed around to different people four or five times, they havent just hung up - they've decided to be abusive on the phone - calling me a 'monkey' and an 'idiot' which I find very amusing, especially for a company such as microsoft :lol:

Today, they called again. I decided to humour them for a bit - they started the call after saying they were from Windows OS Support; 'when you browse the internet and check emails, your PC downloads unwanted files which your anti virus will not pick up...'
My reply today was: 'I have a Mac.'
To which she carried on rambling for a few more minutes telling me how these files could destroy my computer and if I went onto my computer, she could show me all the errors in it...
So naturally I replied: 'But if you're from Microsoft, and I've just told you I have a Mac, why would you still want to help me?'
The phone then went dead...

A few minutes later I get a call back: 'Sorry the phone line cut out' - then she carried on rambling...
I was then bored, and just said I'm really not interested, please dont call again...
She then said - 'expect another 8 phone calls in the next hour' and hung up...

My phone's now being spammed, every couple of minutes it'll ring once and then cut out...

How lovely of 'Microsoft' to be so childish to their competition and spam their phones :lol:

Any of you had similar kinds of calls?
 
Nope but if that happened to me I'd be mad as fuarck (not in general it's fun taking them type of people for a ride) if they get so annoyed that they just start to spam your phone.
 
yassarikhan786 said:
Nah, never happened to me. If I do get such calls I just say "I'm not interested" and put the phone down.
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I normally do for everything else - ie - PPI, Mortgages...
When it's about computers I kind of want to hear what they have to say. I think in future I'll be a bit ruder in hanging up straight away
 
lol. It depends for me - generally, they'll call in the middle of the day, and chances are if I'm at home in the middle of the day anyway then I wont be doing anything anyway.
I'll just have to turn my music volume up so I cant hear the phone ring :)
 
I've had one. They said they could see my ip and loads of errors. I laughed. Asked them what my IP was and they couldn't tell me. Phone went dead.
 
As i'm at home for the majority of the time, I get to deal with all the cold callers. I usually just get Liam Neeson's quote from Taken up on YouTube and deal with them that way.
Just so you know, it's not Microsoft who're phoning you. They're usually companies that are trying to sell you the service of 'cleaning your PC' or selling you an AV program.

I used to get the virus thing all the time, even when my household only contained Macs.

At the end of it all, it just reminds me that I hate people.
 
Yeh yeh, I know they arent really from Microsoft - hence the inverted commas :)

It is basically a scam though, they're telling people they have PC problems when they dont, and using a false name of a reputable company...
 
:D definately go with the taken quotes suggestion, have used it myself on several occasions :P my favourite : " I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." - Works EVERY time :)
 
I bottled it on the quote :/

They told me to go on event viewer and check for errors, trying to claim they were viruses... I said I didn't see any 'errors, warnings or criticals' and only 'informations'.
He then asked me how old the computer was, I said I'd reinstalled windows around a week ago - he said:
'I think when you reinstalled windows, you uninstalled the windows security features and so loads of errors are actually there - but you just can't see them'

I'm doing taken next time...
 
What a joke. I was at my parents a while ago for dinner and my Dad did this because he was getting miffed at the calls:

ooh you sound like a nice boy, what are you wearing? >insert stunned caller here<

I bet you're sexy, are you a sexy boy? >insert stuttering idiot here<

etc etc >hangs up<
 
Indeed, majorly frustrating. Less the calls, more having to go across the room every half an hour, because the call *might* actually be important. It never is, but that one time you leave the phone ringing, you can be damn sure that you were needed for realsies.
 
Back in the days when I was young (read 18) I got called by a funeral company. They asked if I wanted to set up my funeral and such. I was freaking pissed! Im sitting there they calling me on my mobile phone and asking me, a young man, to arragne my funeral. I told them my age and that I dont wanted to arrange it. But what about the people you leave behind, do they have to pay for everything? Then I got really mad and told them I didnt care and hung up.

The same day I registered for a service called: Bel me niet (Dutch for: dont call me). Its a service where, when youre on the list, they arent allowed to call you for advertisement. Since then, Ive never been called. :)
 
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