The deal is microsoft a sweepstakes a government agency law enforcement are not going to call you the real ones anyway. Corporations have 1800 numbers for you to call them if you need help a government agency a sweepstakes will send registered mail they would not just call out of the blue ,law enforcement will show up at your door they go for the dramatic.

I do get e-mails.

Sounds good.

Have you ever tried to find a number to call when you need help? Impossible.

I know the fake microsoft calls about 2 times a month Th fake grants department was calling a few times a day. The one guy called about 4:00 my time the day before Turkey day. I let him run his spiel. When he was done I asked if the government was on over time, he must not have caught it right away started to tell me some b.s. he stopped mid word said what do you mean. I said that it is about 6:00 on the east coast the government starts to shut down around 4:00 especially going into a holiday . He called me a mother....er and slammed the receiver. The best one so far the fake mega lottery sweepstakes called told me that i had won 700,000 and all I had to do is pay 399$ for a government stamp to deliver it to me. That guy was kind of nervous, because I had translated the phone he was calling from. I told him that I was going to give his location to the nirobi police.

They get you to give them remote access to your computer, then they lock you out of it and make you buy gift cards to chain stores and send them the number to unlock it. Basically, they virtually steal your computer and make you pay ransom to get it back, all over the phone from another country so we can't even find them and arrest them.

There are tons of gullible people with limited computer knowledge. The scammers cold call trying to trick people into paying a scam fee.