Has anyone ever had a 'apple support' person randomly call your house saying there's a problem with your computer?

Had someone from 'apple customer support' just call my house saying that there is a problem with my computer because there has been a lot of activity on it and asked me to turn it on so he could help me fix it.
There's nothing wrong with my computer first off..lots not even a Mac.
Didn't give him any info
Anyone else heard about this happening as part of a scam?

I've read of some knowledgable users being able to string these scammers, who are probably mostly low-rent phone dialers with a script to follow, along for ten or fifteen minutes by asking all sorts of naive questions. The transcripts I've seen have been pretty funny. Here's a couple that make good reading:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech- support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2013/04/phone-scammers-call-the-wrong-gu y-get-mad-and-trash-pc/

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