Annoying phone calls.

I get phone calls from someone saying that they call Windows. The call has a bad connection and is from a foreign country. They keep telling me that they receive my computer error messages. They claim they will help me solve the problem. I never thought it was real and today I pretended I was going with them and asked if they were going to go to my computer to fix and they said yes. Then I got mad and told them what I thought of them.  They called me in the past and I'm not calling but they continue to do so. Can Windows do about it?

Hello

As you noted, it's a very long running and well known chain of scam calls. Do not always listen to one of these people, so the major idea is that usually they come from Windows and non-Microsoft. Windows itself is not a company or society, but simply an operating system developed by Microsoft. When someone who works at MS is asked where they work, they would not meet with their workstation at Microsoft, Windows.

See here for more information - http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

Kind regards

Patrick

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