I have just spent the last 15 minutes in discussion with a lady in India. She rang me on my house phone so it showed up the number she was ringing from - the code was that of a town in north of England. I asked where was she ringing from and after some questioning she said she was in India.
She started by saying she was ringing reference my BT interest connection - but my internet supplier is not BT - and that my computer is sending out all sorts of error messages. She would be closing my connection for 29 days (?).
Unusually, she did not hang up when I said it was a scam, so I carried on the argument with her. She was quite adamant that there was a problem, but could not understand why my phone was showing a UK phone code. Eventually, she said that because she was working for BT then they would be using UK phone codes but she could not tell me what UK number she was ringing from, or even which town.
Googling the number produced nothing - they do seem to change numbers all the time nowadays so as to avoid the number showing up as a scam, I guess.
I said it was a scam call but she said she would tell me the licence number so that I knew it was genuine - how would I know?
She wanted to know the licence number of my computer so she could confirm it was correct! I asked her to tell me the number she had but she refused (and I wouldn't have known how to find my number anyway).
As I had spare time I continued the discussion with her, almost 15 minutes before she eventually gave up.
So, if I'm not here for the next 29 days you know why!!!