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Stoney Bloke
Hi guys, I'm Rok, I'm new here. I have a 2002 XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3, Optima desktop computer. My story is this.
I've been getting phone calls to my silent landline number on a regular basis, from people claiming to be an authorised Microsoft Contracted Online Computer Repair company, replying to a Microsoft request to call me and to attend to my error reports I'd been sending about my Blue Screen STOP errors I still get at varying time intervals, weekly, fortnightly then nothing for many weeks, even when just sitting and playing Solitaire?
Firstly I asked the caller how he got my silent number? Claimed he got it off the Windows Global Server. Yeah??? Second I asked caller where he was calling from and what day and time it was there, as caller said he was calling from California? CLICK! The phone went dead. My time was around 4:45pm, American east coast time is around 17hours behind Brisbane, the caller supposedly working round 11 o'clock at night????? Other times caller said he was calling from Albert Park in Melbourne. Another time from Blackhold Sydney, on the north shore over the bridge. LIES!!! Suburb doesn't exist. I lived and worked in Sydney many years ago. The company name varying from IYOGI to Campaign Developer, authorised Microsoft Contracted Computer Repairers.
Kept getting calls over the next few days, always very late in the afternoon, bordering on dinner time, last call Saturday 26th April at 4:50pm, from the same so called authorised Microsoft Contracted computer repair company, supposedly calling from Bankstown, Sydney, asked him the time of day and his answer within a minute or so of the right time. Asked his supposed company name, address and phone number as displayed in Telstra phone book. Was told their premises were at 58 Wacker Street Bankstown, phone number 2-6172-1130 and assured was a free number to dial. Yeah sure. Nothing found on Telstra white pages website of course.
Caller's accent each time sounding very much like sub-continent, Sri-Lankan/Bangladeshi, starting off in mumbled, hard to understand English, muttering who he was and who he represented and to turn on my computer and to connect to the internet and follow his directions to allow him to remotely connect to my computer for him to scan for errors, viruses, Trojans and the like, so he could clean and carry out repairs. Yeah sure mate. Pigs'll fly too.
I politely told the caller last Saturday I'd do some checking up on their phone number and address, contact Microsoft as well, possibly carry out a re-install, to maybe fix my slow processor problem I read about can sometimes be fixed with a clean install. When typing into the address bar, typing emails, the text takes time to appear and back spacing for correcting and editing, I have to be careful not to click 'Backspace' too many times, to prevent to much text being wiped out, although what I've been typing here is appearing in real time, no delay between typing and having to wait to see if everything correctly typed. Maybe with all my full scans with my arsenal of anti-nasties I have, whatever may have been causing the delayed appearance of text being typed has been fixed.
OK good people. I'm enquiring if I can still get Microsoft help to my error messages I send to them, although when I brought up the Microsoft Help page, a big message told me that XP support is no longer available, so I may as well disable my error message sending and keep up to date with online Microsoft forums which is why I've just joined up.
May all of you have a nice day and I hope to hear from some of you when you have the time to write.
Bye for now.
Rok.
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I've been getting phone calls to my silent landline number on a regular basis, from people claiming to be an authorised Microsoft Contracted Online Computer Repair company, replying to a Microsoft request to call me and to attend to my error reports I'd been sending about my Blue Screen STOP errors I still get at varying time intervals, weekly, fortnightly then nothing for many weeks, even when just sitting and playing Solitaire?
Firstly I asked the caller how he got my silent number? Claimed he got it off the Windows Global Server. Yeah??? Second I asked caller where he was calling from and what day and time it was there, as caller said he was calling from California? CLICK! The phone went dead. My time was around 4:45pm, American east coast time is around 17hours behind Brisbane, the caller supposedly working round 11 o'clock at night????? Other times caller said he was calling from Albert Park in Melbourne. Another time from Blackhold Sydney, on the north shore over the bridge. LIES!!! Suburb doesn't exist. I lived and worked in Sydney many years ago. The company name varying from IYOGI to Campaign Developer, authorised Microsoft Contracted Computer Repairers.
Kept getting calls over the next few days, always very late in the afternoon, bordering on dinner time, last call Saturday 26th April at 4:50pm, from the same so called authorised Microsoft Contracted computer repair company, supposedly calling from Bankstown, Sydney, asked him the time of day and his answer within a minute or so of the right time. Asked his supposed company name, address and phone number as displayed in Telstra phone book. Was told their premises were at 58 Wacker Street Bankstown, phone number 2-6172-1130 and assured was a free number to dial. Yeah sure. Nothing found on Telstra white pages website of course.
Caller's accent each time sounding very much like sub-continent, Sri-Lankan/Bangladeshi, starting off in mumbled, hard to understand English, muttering who he was and who he represented and to turn on my computer and to connect to the internet and follow his directions to allow him to remotely connect to my computer for him to scan for errors, viruses, Trojans and the like, so he could clean and carry out repairs. Yeah sure mate. Pigs'll fly too.
I politely told the caller last Saturday I'd do some checking up on their phone number and address, contact Microsoft as well, possibly carry out a re-install, to maybe fix my slow processor problem I read about can sometimes be fixed with a clean install. When typing into the address bar, typing emails, the text takes time to appear and back spacing for correcting and editing, I have to be careful not to click 'Backspace' too many times, to prevent to much text being wiped out, although what I've been typing here is appearing in real time, no delay between typing and having to wait to see if everything correctly typed. Maybe with all my full scans with my arsenal of anti-nasties I have, whatever may have been causing the delayed appearance of text being typed has been fixed.
OK good people. I'm enquiring if I can still get Microsoft help to my error messages I send to them, although when I brought up the Microsoft Help page, a big message told me that XP support is no longer available, so I may as well disable my error message sending and keep up to date with online Microsoft forums which is why I've just joined up.
May all of you have a nice day and I hope to hear from some of you when you have the time to write.
Bye for now.
Rok.
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Continue reading...