I receive a phone call from an Indian sounding fellow (the dot, not the feather) who identified himself as a Microsoft sub-contractor. He said that Microsoft had been receiving lots of error messages from my computer and he was going to help me “fix the problem”. He then gave me another code to type in, and all of a sudden without prior notice, he had control of my screen. After 2 hours of listening to this fellow repeat himself over and over again on how he was going to tell me how to clear these errors, he had changed the log-in password to my computer which meant I was effectively being blackmailed. He told me to hang up the phone, go to my nearest Walmart and buy five $50 iTune gift cards. Bottom line, since I am fortunate that I have caller ID on my phone, If you receive a call from someone identified as “800 Service” from the number: “855 667 2665” (google it), DO NOT answer the phone.

Unwanted Calls was reported by a user from Clearwater via FCC.