Microsoft Refund Dept.

Anonymous
2018-05-22T23:23:35+00:00

I also received a call from "Microsoft Refund Dept.". Since I didn't pick up they left a computer generated message stating her name as Kathy Jackson from tech support and to call 877 721  7434. for my refund. The reason I am posting this is I wanted to see if anyone else received such messages. Imagine my surprise when I realized the first comment about this subject was posted 2013!!! That was five years ago. Five years of people being scammed, losing money and whatever else. How could this still be happening without them being stopped? And the first one I saw was from the Netherlands, meaning this is an international scam.  AND it was on this site. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft oversee their own site?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-12-19T19:23:37+00:00

    I got the call to today. Is this really happening or is it a scam?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-19T19:36:49+00:00

    This is the number they called me frim. ‭+1 (518) 329-9211‬

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-20T00:42:16+00:00

    I got the call to today. Is this really happening or is it a scam?

    This call is a scam.  Microsoft will not cold call you and ask for personal identifying information.  Microsoft refunded me back to my issuing card and then sent me snail mail to explain their reason.  If you have purchased from Microsoft they already have your details to give you a refund.  

    Once you answer the phone, then they call you every hour.  There is an app you can get that takes the conversation off your phone and ties the people up with useless conversation.  

    If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-12-21T20:19:33+00:00

    I have recieved these calls, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Are there really people dumb enough to fall for these scams?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-12-21T23:18:18+00:00

    I have recieved these calls, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Are there really people dumb enough to fall for these scams?

    If no one responded to them, then they would not be calling.  My Grandmother was 88 when I returned to Florida in 2005.  Two weeks of staying there and she came out of the dining room where she had a ton of papers spread out to pay her bills and said, "Honey, did you know I am paying on bills I did not make?"  Long story short the administrator and admin asst of the Sr citizens center had stolen the social security numbers of their clients and ordered tons of things from the credit cards they got.  The police had arrested the two and told all the little old ladies (my Grandmother included) that there had been "identity theft" and asked if any of them needed help.  My Grandmother and her girlfriends all looked at each other and said, "How can you steal a person's face?"  Now, at that time all the credit card company's advertised that a card could only be used if facial identifying cards like a driver's license was used that was part of their thinking.   The more I researched the sadder I became.  Granny was 1/4 million in debt and had never spent a dime.  Her roof was falling in, her front porch.  In our area, they have found daycare places that have used the social numbers of children in their identity theft.    We have to protect the young babies and our Elders.

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