| | | 800-596-1758 is widely reported on multiple sites as a scam in which person calling says your Microsoft Windows license is expiring. Microsoft does not contact people this way to begin with, and anyone who knows anything at all about MS Windows knows that when you buy your copy of the Windows Operating System (whether as a stand-alone software product, or pre-installed on your purchased computer) the license does not "expire" nor require "renewal." These callers are probably trying to either get you to buy a "green-dot" type of cash card or trying to get you to go to a website for "help" only to find out quickly that they are installing ransom-ware on your computer, at which point you are screwed -- you either cough up the ransom dough or lose your already scrambled files. If you call this number and do what the caller says, you're either naïve or a fool. |