Quote Originally Posted by BananaStand View Post

I've never gotten a call from Russian computer hackers pretending to be agents from Microsoft and telling me to let them log into my computer to make "security updates". However, my parents and all their friends have had it happen to them multiple times.
Yeah, 'cause Russian hackers really try to pinpoint their victims. I've had plenty of calls like this.

Basically,they have a dialling machine and whoever answers the phone gets a sell job. If you were ever home it might happen to you too.