No Internet ....Scam ! or what

Not for a while and then it was someone from Microsoft, supposedly, about an issue with our operating system. As with you wanting access to our computer. Clearly a scam. Now we just don't answer the phone to anything that does not come up with a name In the phones memory. If it is important enough there is always the answer phone, which cuts in after 20 seconds or so. In general they ring off well before.

I work on the rule ,that if someone phones me offering something that I haven't asked for then it's a scam ......

Yes, a scam of course.  I have recently had several calls from "BT", "Mircosoft" and others.  Strangely they all seem to be calling from India,  yet are called Steve or Amanda.

The last time we had one of these calls, the wife said, really ? We dont have a computer !

"Its about your windows sir"

Oh, I say, they are all double glazed thank you. Don't need any more.

I just say there's no one home i'm just the burglar robbing the joint !!!!!!!!! that normally gets rid of them

We've given up answering the landline altogether. I'll play the first few seconds of the answer phone message and decide if I want to listen to any more. 90% of the calls are still about PPI or similar

Our phone calls are usually from Kevin who works for Microsoft....

Best one, my son in law works behind the scenes for Lloyds Bank and he got one at work on his mobile a couple of weeks ago informing him that the computer he was working at had a virus and that he could help remove it.... Toby started telling him the strength of the firewall and other protection systems at Lloyds before the phone went dead...

I got one at 7.30 a.m. yesterday from 'TalkTalk'

  I said 'for security reasons, can you confirm my address?' Well, that's what they ask me, she hung up.

I had 3 calls from 'Microsoft' but of course we all know that your ISP will never phone you.