phone call from Microsoft engineer

RichardD1970

abibee wrote: »

What bank is that? Mine doesn't have my e-mail, nobody else's I know has theirs.

Both my ( big name, high street) banks and all but one of my credit card companies email me quite regularly.

abibee

RichardD1970 wrote: »

Both my ( big name, high street) banks and all but one of my credit card companies email me quite regularly.

Funny, I never thought they ever e-mailed anyone. Maybe that quote should be revised to 'banks don't e-mail you with supposed login links or asking for details'.

imatt

Jivesinger wrote: »

This is nonsense, of course.

My bank emails me frequently - and I am sure it's really them.

If banks never email anyone, why do the online banking systems have a box for 'email address'?

I am specifically talking about those emails asking to verify details. Many are unsure banks and HMRC emails are legit when scammers phishing emails look so convincing. Even using the same logos, fonts and colour schemes. Banks have always said they do NOT send such emails. Nether does HMRC.


http://www.halifax.co.uk/aboutonline/security/common-threats/phishing/

matphil

Fightsback wrote: »

I had my first one of those ever a few days ago, see thread here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5197814

Are you on talktalk as they did have a data breach of phone numbers and addresses, I suspect thats how I was called.

see here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/27/talktalk_admits_massive_data_breach/

I had my first call from these this week, they said they were from TalkTalk and calling about problems with my router.
I am with TalkTalk and had been in contact with them a few weeks back because I was having problems with my router.
Luckily I have read all about these scams on here so told them to go away.

Strider590

They had your address/etc because they run these scams out of genuine call centres, the staff get some extra cash to go into work and make these calls.

letsbehonest

Go onto Google translate input F off or similar in Hindi practice it and when you get another call which I'm sure you will you can try out your newly acquired language skills.

Oblivion

Geodark wrote: »

I get regular emails from my bank, my wifes bank and from my credit card company. Banks do send emails, they make sure they are identifiable by quoting parts of account numbers etc.

Yes indeed. HSBC Premier email me on a regular basis, usually with the seemingly endless changes to their terms and conditions. I think I'd miss them if the constant flow of garbage ever stopped.

cookie365

booksurr wrote: »

Please, there is no point telling me it is a fraud unless you have concrete evidence to support your statement

I'm just listening to every single phone call made by Microsoft on that day, to see if any of them were to your house.

Good job I had the foresight to install that listening device on your phone!

Microsoft employees made about a quarter of a million phone calls that day, so give me a couple of days to get through them all.

tavernman

Is it just me, or is it my sense of failure(or do I fail to see sense). Someone comes on this forum asking for help and often get next to no help, someone mentions apple then they end up with the ranters and ravers and topic drifts off. Yet people who say "I have a call from microsoft" and 30 plus replies all repeat the the past carp , cannot these people use Google(probably not...) nor can they search the forum. End of rant...
Now what is the problem OP?

windup

perhaps you missed the contradictions in the first post.

I've got a problem (seemingly - with the addition of quotation marks after the first line it could be read as a comment on the stupidity of others), don't answer it because I won't believe your answer.


The google suggestions were the op's own responses to questions in other threads

Things go off in tangents usually because often the originator never comes back, wasting others people time is becoming increasingly popular, as is adding ones two penneth when there's nowt on the telly