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called my work number, i answer with my name, and gentleman with an accent responds hi hello i'm looking for 'xxx" andjust repeats my name that I have already stated then hangs up

Told me he was from Microsoft and that my computer was infected with a virus.

Google the number, appears to be a year-old scam...

I received a call from 661-748-0241 notice the 41 at the end.I know this number is different but I think it is the same scam. I just joined Skype a week or so ago. Like some of you I made the mistake of answering the phone. The good news is the area I am in has poor phone service and the call was dropped
a few seconds after I answered. I can not be sure but it looks like to me the people that are doing this have added a new number to there phone line.

No message left on answering machine

I didnt pick-up.

skype user

This caller is not from the US. He is disguised as an employee of Evirtual Services. He's a class A jerk!

My Skype account is showing up on a friend's caller ID as this number, which indicates hacking. I also had a call from a Microsoft impersonator last year, after which my computer was sabotaged and I had to reinstall the software. I've now reported it to Skype after finding out online that this number is a fraud/spam one.

caller with an east Indian accent claimed he was from the US Grants Department...bogus

Some junk about cabinet restoration.

Been receiving calls on and off since July. Probably because I was stupid enough to "sign up" for servicing my computer - they said they were from Microsoft and had been receiving error reports about problems I was having. Unfortunately, I believed him. Now, after the last time, my PayPal account was used to send two $300.00 payments to some guy in India. I stopped payment at my bank and reported unauthorized use to PayPal but am wondering what else is going to happen.

he has been calling me h says give me my money i said to him u got the wrong number he's like no i got the right number he is calling from skype next he calls me he says if you dont give me my money im commin to your house

left no message

couldn't understand him

skype user called from number 661-748-0240

661 is So. Calif.

Recived a call from this number saying they were from Microsoft and needed to help me remove a virus. He had a thick accent. I gave him no information and told him I wasn't interested. I believe it is a scam

They called my father inlaws house saying there were from DHL and I had a package but won't leave a message

This unknown caller has called my cell phone twice and leaves no message. I do not answer since I do not know them and do not give out my cell phone and it is on the do not call registry which appears to not work. Please STOP the annoying unwanted phone calls!!!

got a call from this number on my cell. First from this number, then an unknown number about a min later, then another call about a min later from the same number. They did not leave a msg.
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A message from the Super Shuttle service. Odd considering the prior reports.

This call was made by one of the sales associates at Easy Projects -- a Project Management Software Solution that you probably have a trial for.

Older.gentlemen, sounded like he was on a speaker phone. Asked if the boss was there. Asked if this was usaa. Then stated, "this isn't fort meyers?". I then Hung up. Very od. He called at 645 am.

I just received a call from (661) 748-0240
Palmdale Area and didn't answer because I don't answer numbers I don't know. They immediately called back and I denied the call. Looked up the number and I'm glad I didn't answer after reading these comments. Creepy.

Called the no. And the lady got very defensive with me and I ask why should I send money to u to get a grant and to go to western union at that and than be out of my money she went off

ok poeple look i got the same call this morning what makes it bad well it was at my job and i dont give out my job info to anyone so just like the unknown said i did it too. i called the number back and got a recording that this call could not be complete as the site is a skype user. hello smart ones this is what now as if you dont have caller id now a days really how stupid is that. anyways put in your complaints and let the feds and the government take care of it someone is gonna get caught.

I`ve called this number back and got a recording that this call could not be complete as the site is a skype user.

called a tattoo business under caller id of fightthepolice was someone pretending to want a tattoo. and acting like the crank caller asian voice from youtube that calls the tattoo shop asking about genital tattoos.

They called me at 11:15 p.m. when I was asleep - I looked up the number to see where it was from and did not recognize it so googled it here hte next morning. No message left for me.

This caller also has a thick indian accent. He calls repeatedly asking for Julia Garcia, and then Carol Boden, and the Mike. We decided to give it right back...when he asked for Carol I gave him to a guy in my office, then he asked him for Mike, he switched him back to me, then he asked for Julia again and I said I was Julia...he got soooo pissed! Tried calling us back 4 times after that and I just kept picking up and hanging up. He's such an ass.

Caller has a thick Indian accent and says that he is from Microsoft technical support. He says that my computer is sending out information over the internet and that my computer has a virus. Scarey thing is that he knows my name. I have checked with Microsoft before and they do not call customers directly. So who are these people?

Received this call on my work cell phone. Couldn't understand the person at all. Call "dropped." I tried to call back, got "call can't be connected because it's a SKYPE number."

Telemarketer calling do not call number and leaving this message:

Hey it's me hey listen i want you to visit our website. It's it's for a call me my first call me about and what the deal is. They save you money on your electric and gas dollars a month. The also got a referral program. If you tell the hope you can give me a couple of bucks out of. And it's for example things for 8 they're good or site. Check it out. Electric and, yes, in. So, dot com electric and A S in so dot com. I have to go there. Get yourself all set up and all that stuff, gimme a holler back alright. Alright, see you.

tl;dr: Phi$hing Scam.

Someone speaking in a very thick South Asian accent, in broken English, tried to tell me I'd won something by filling out a coupon at a Holiday Inn in "Georgetown". Since the display read "Palmdale Area", and I thought that maybe this might be a legitimate call and someone just falsely used my telephone number on a form, I asked him "which one?" and he had trouble answering. I asked him his name, and he seemed to parry the question. I then asked "what state are you in?" hoping to squash this misunderstanding as quickly as possible. He couldn't even answer what state he was in and then read off something I recognized as a a Washington DC street address and area code (my cell phone is also a DC exchange, even though I haven't lived there in years), and without the quadrant suffix. He also told me what sounded like I had won a contest. I told him his area code did not match what he was telling me, that I had never stayed at a Holiday Inn and DC at which point he said "no sir, I am in Georgetown" and started reading the address again, and tried to tell me he needed to verify some things with "my account". This call was already sketchy as hell, but at this point any plausibility that this was some idiot in a call center merely reporting a false claim went out the window and I straight up told him I had never been in a Holiday Inn in DC, and that he was clearly a scam, and not to call me again or I'd call the police, at which point I hung up.

Thick Indian accent, stated he was calling from AT&T about my bill. I saw "Skype User" on the caller ID. I said AT&T? who the Fuck are you?" He then said I am your Father MotherFucker and hung up on me! what a piece of shit!

Called my own land line from Skype on my desktop computer, and this is the number that showed up on caller ID, along with my Skype user ID. As I do not have a Skype phone number, I suspect this is some generic Skype number that shows up for Skype calls from computers, and so could be ANYone.

This guy is NOT a telemarketer, he is definitely phishing. Very abrupt and said he was from Toshiba ( I assume the electronics company) He did not hesitate to answer Toshiba when I asked.

This caller clearly was trying to figure out if my number was a skype or computer number, he had an accent. Why can't someone shut this guy down?

Called twice on the 3rd, 3 hrs apart. I was out so didn't answer.

A guy with an accent stronger than mine and barely speaking English at all called me today asking for an appointment ( am an escort ), he wanted me to go to his hotel in Beverly Hills, I dont think he speak Spanish or Italian since my clients know that I speak those 2 languages.
Suddenly he seemed in the need to go and hung up saying he would call me back in 10 minutes, I got suspicious and google the number and to my surprise I found this place with inf about his number...so now am confuse.
but certainly he is a piece of art :-)

I was called by a fake number in Japan as a response to an online teaching position I applied for but when I checked my voice-mail the real number 661-748-0240 was indicated as the source of the call which is a California number. Unfortunately I didn’t notice this until after my Skype interview where I was told we would have to set up a time for another online meeting where he can “check my connection” to make sure it was suitable for live instruction with the students. I said I wanted to see a contract first and his demeanor changed, he went on to say that he would have to check my connection first and that’s when a red flag went up and I knew it was a scam to hack my information from my computer. Also he was going on and on about the cold weather in Japan when the message was from California. It’s sad. BE WARNED!

The ttelespammer called us via our "Skype-In" number. A phone number that you purchase from Skype to receive incoming calls.

The telespammer apparently looks up contacts in skype and then places the call.

When you try to return the call, you receive a message saying that you can't return the call because you're trying to reach a skype user. This means that they have "Skype Out" - which is to say, they can make phone calls on the PSTN from skype, but there really isn't any number to call them back on, because any number of telespammers with "Skype Out" may show the same CallerID.

Even if they had "Skype In", they can set their callerid to something like, 666-666-1234 - So you wouldn't be able to reach them anyway.

You have to remember that these people calling you survive with an annual salary of less than you make a week - they have no moral compass from our perspective, you are an enemy to be destroyed or burgled, and ANYTHING they can gain from you is okay to them. Their lives are miserable, they are part of the insignificant, downtrodden, wretches of the world's population, and as many of the above reporters have demonstrated, these spammers and scammers have no concept of our social concepts - therefore, they actually think they are blending in and that you are buying their claim to be your grandaughter, or a tech support firm, or that you will send money (because compared to them, you are a billionaire already and won't even notice a couple of grand spent unwisely).

You cannot stop them from calling. They are offshore and out of reach from the FTC, although with enough complaints to Microsoft, who now owns Skype, you *might* be able to get them to check the logs on the Skype servers and terminate the skype account(s) and ban the IP adresses the calls originate from, in some far off jungle nation where they prolly still practice cannibalism, and make babies so they can sell their children for extra income.

Yeah. Really. Get over it, and write your government demanding that there should be no U.S. soldiers boots on the ground when we have neutron bombs to sterilize foreign threats!

I hope that helps :)

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Number just called me and the guy who answered just said he worked for the same company i do and was sleeping with my wife for quite some time. I just got my new phone today and figured it would be easier if i put my new number on facebook so my friends can add me to there contacts.....Before i called my wife about it i decided to look the number up on google and low and behold, its just a scammer...thanks!

Scam, scam, scam. This girl claiming to be from Russia started to correspond with me, after a while she wanted to travel here but wouldn't you know it she needed $1250 for the rest of her expenses. I refused and she doesn't contact me anymore. After the complaints here that I've read someone needs to put a stop to this fraudulent behavior. Do not fall for their scam...

Skype user

Called twice. Did not answer. After reading comments below, will not answer.

Just now....didn't answer when saw the LATINO tel. Illegal due to being on DO NOT CALL list

I tell this person/number not to call my business again. I am not interested in their services. If I wanted to, I would call them. Every day, week, month. I am so tired of these non speaking English people thinking they are getting away with something, by selling a load of $#@t.

Immediately claimed wrong number and hung up when heard my voice. Illegal telemarketers calling DO NOT CALL listed # more and more in past 3 months. WHEN will it stop?

I got a call from 661-748-0240 5:03pm pst on 12/26/12 but did not answer. Of course no message. Damn spamming phishers.

Called at 2257hrs Mon. Dec 24 2012, did not leave message.

I knew it was a telemarketer of some sort, so I answered speaking Mandarin, but strangely enough, the lady spoke Mandarin right back to me, asking me to buy some electronic thing. Out of pure surprise I hung up. She then immediately called back saying how hard it was for her to make money without being able to speak English, so I just stammered that I didn't want to buy anything and to please stop calling. Freakin weird. These people are Chinese btw, and are out to rip people off no matter how they doit.

Just got a call from this number, a man with strong accent hard to understand, asking to verify if I was owner of my cell number he read off. I did not confirm, i kept asking what was name of person he was calling, he kept repeating my number. He was telling me something about contest, i told him i could not understand him, he said wait get someone. Another man with similar accent got on, asking again if i was owner of #.I asked who was he calling, same story. Said I entered a contest at walmart on 12/28/11 and I won 3 prizes, do I remember entering? I told him if I enter any drawings, they always ask for name, address and phone #. He said this one only asked for cell number. I hung up on him. That time of year for all the dirt ball scammers to come out.

I answerd and the caller said Hi Grandpa. I ask who is this and she answered your grand daughter who do you think. I said you don't sound like my grand daughter. The voice sounded like she had moved away from the phone and was using a different language. I hung up.

Got a call from this number from a scam artist saying they were from Microsoft Windows and they had reports saying my computer had been infected with a virus. He wanted to talk me through a fix. I asked if it would cost anything and he said that it would only cost something if there was a big problem. He hung up when I said I had a mac.

He was trying to order a pizza and yelling about weed talking in a crappy cartman (South Park) accent! He actually called a business!

Rec'd call on 11-26-12 from someone with a foreign accent. He asked if I was available, when I stated I was speaking, he hung up on me. The caller ID showed Skype User

We got called by this number and they asked for my husband (by name). And we said he wasnt there and we hung up. They keep calling

Just received a call from (661) 748-0240
Palmdale Area. I asked who was calling and he said me-e. he took another call whole on the phone with me and said hold on I have another call. I asked what the .f. He wanted and who he was and he said I want to rub you all over you're body. I am a young woman and so not appreciate this. Should I call the police? When I tried to call the number on a land line it said cannot connect because the number is a Skype number. Please help

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PRANK PHONE CALL

foreign how to understand dude says he's calling to fix my computer thru global technologies. I did not call ANYONE to repair!

this mofo tryin to order a pizza

Cell phone call from the Palmdale area, from someone supposedly named Gill. Wanted me to visit a website called blackbox17.com and get involved in the business. Totally sounds like a scam. Report and block ASAP!

They called my number and had this werid giberish onthe voice mail. I wonder why

Received a call from this number which I thought was weird. I didn't answer, no voicemail left. I looked up the number and came across several websites identifying the number as bogus and scammer. I called it from another phone and it said it call can not go through because it's a Skype number.
Thank you all for the information!!

called and left a detailed message how he found his calling in making money...just another scam artist, exactly what a few have said below, my name is Paul, blah blah ....
deleted voice mail and blocked the number.
Like I would say "oh yes I am interested"...LOL now they're using Skype....

I missed this call, and they left a voice mail. The person stated, "Hello Bob (Which I'm Female, and don't know a bob) my name is Paul and we don’t know each other. I wanted to reach out to you. I came across your info and wanted to share something with you". The recording we on to say he had previously worked in the construction business. He wanted to share a new business with me called 3 black box dot com or something like that. Told me to call him back.

Recorded message. The person stated, "Hello, my name is Paul and we don’t know each other. I wanted to reach out to you. I came across your info and wanted to share something with you". The recording we on to say he had previously worked in the construction business. I had another call coming in and tried to answer it, but this scam call had tied up my phone. When I tried to press the # sign repeatedly, it made the recording start over. I could not free my phone. Thankfully, I did not have an emergency to report.

Crank caller - was singing "America! America! Is this you?" Called just after 3am. Sounded very American - no accent at all. Would be funny if I weren't so annoyed.

I had the same thing happen to me yesterday. they said i had won one of four prizes however they couldn't tell me any information about me other than my phone number. (obviously because they called me on it!) They claimed to work for Toshiba and that they were based out of Virginia. HOW DID THEY GET MY INFO?!?!?!

This number called twice back to back, the first time it went to voicemail the second I answered but it was an automated voice and I could not tell anyone to stop calling.

Kevin said he was with teh Internal Revenue Dept and said that the government was giving away a $5000 grant for me being a tax payer and that i should receive the application in the mail tomorrow morning and to send it back and in 10-15 business days i will receive my refund. called back and said that i couldn't because it was a skype user. I am very upset and want to know how in the world they got my number. not only that i spoke to another representative named max who told my to reg for a school in order to receive money but dont mention that i am being given any money to go to school. i spoke to a hotel that is giving away money but i was not a member of it, the address given to me was 326 Broadway San Diego, Ca 94112.

Spoke very poor information. Claimed to be with the IRS and that the government was giving $5000 to some lucky individual to spend as they wished to help you with the economy. Asked many personal questions which I refused to answer stating the IRS should already know the answers. Finally I hung up. Very, very poor pronunciation of English words.

Maybe this is one of those default phone numbers from a service which is prone to abuse. The following is for those of you getting fake PC techs ....

(2846436572) whocalled.us

Here's the verdict straight from Microsoft:

Avoid tech support phone scams
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Strange call pretending to be from Microsoft tech support
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Some relief came the first week in October 2012 as the FTC spanked whole gangs of these creeps with huge damage awards.

FTC Halts Massive Tech Support Scams
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Women said that my computer had dangerous virus and I needed to talk to her. I hung up.

Called me 3 times in a row. Caller ID said Skype User ...

Also called from 661-748-2044
Robocall - delay after I answer, then male voice comes on. I hung up. Next time I won't answer.

Got a call from "James", supposedly at Toshiba Electronics, claiming I'd won a $5000 prize in some sort of competition. Everything sounded phony, so I presume it was some sort of scam.

I answered and this guy said he was calling live from a jazz radio station. He said that if I yell really loud into my phone or honk my car horn for ten seconds, that I would be entered to win up to $1,000. I denied. I am glad I did because according to this, it was a scam/prank call. Sounded like it was called from Skype too.

caller ID said iguanodonn left no message

I did not answer the call, and they left no message.

Called my phone at 233 am to inquire about a pair of shoes listed on Ohio Craigslist! When I said I can call you back it's 230 in middle of night .. He insisted this is the only free time I have. Tell me about the shoes. There are pictures and details in my posting. No need to call. Very strange!

Called my cell phone and did not leave a message.

Tried to tell me that they were Microsoft and that I had a virus on my computer. I hung up.