called calls

aayush

Hi
Just a quick question my dad over the past few days has been getting call advising him that he pc has issues as my dad is no ofay with it tels them he not now how to switch on the PC

can you please advise me if any one has received this sort of call and what should be done as the number is with held

harrys_nan

They are scam calls, just tell to hang up and not to do anything they ask

macman

You and your dad are possibly the last people in the UK who haven't received such calls.
Ignore them.

ballyblack

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres

kwikbreaks

The interesting bit in that url is ... /2010/jul/18/ ... and it was probably an old story then.

I think they must have almost completed calling the UK as we used to get a thread on them several times a week but they seem to have fallen off a bit lately. Some tried to set records keeping them on the line for as long as possible. When I got my call I was in a bit of a rush which is probably why I grabbed the phone without checking the caller id so I just swore and hung up.

Gillor

When I had a call last year I told them I found it strange that they had found a problem with my computer as I didn't even own one!

Never heard from them again.

jhe

Gillor wrote: »

When I had a call last year I told them I found it strange that they had found a problem with my computer as I didn't even own one!

Never heard from them again.

yes i always tell them this but i still get regular calls from them.
they rang again this week so i told them my son has a computer with problems and gave them a phone number.......the local police station

aayush

Thank you all fro the response I have sent the link ion my brother to show dad

cmonthehoops

Just hang up simple i used to get roughly 6/8 calls daily drove me nuts!!! i rergistered my number here http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html now i am lucky if i get 2/3 calls a month now.

Enterprise_1701C

I had a bit of fun with them, told them they should not be able to see the virus on my computer because I was creating it in a sandbox. They actually hung up on ME!!

ballyblack

This has been discussed here before;

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4401943