Caller: ATO

Same as a lot of you, prerecorded call, saying I owe money to tax and a warrant has been put out for my arrest. I just hung up.

Caller: Mark Wilson

Said he was from Telstra , that my internet would be cut off from 6.00 pm tonight snd that several people were using my internet.

It is the bastards who runs the telephone services who sell our numbers to them. We just lie down and take it like cowards.

Have had the same call multiple times now. It has been going on for a few months and they won't stop calling.

(02) 8005 0590 - Scam Number

We had two call's from them last night first at 5pm and my mum told them we did not have a computer and asked for there name and number which they gave her. Then at about 8pm they called back and I answered the call. The same usual spin "hello I'm a microsoft technician and you have virisus on your computer". I said it's ok I can fix it myself as I work for 'MICROSOFT" and guess what the phone
went dead silent and they hung up on me. Hopefully they won't be calling back.

These guys have rung here at least 50 times over many months, the latest is now a tirade of verbal abuse and racial comments and swearing profanity to us on the phone by these people, what powers do australian regularity bodies have to shut these clowns down

These guys are dodgy ... they could not give me a straight answer about how they were receiving error reports from my machine. Also as soon as I asked them to send me an email with their company details and why they were calling me so that I could verify their authenticity the guy got angry and aggressive and told me it wasn't going to be his fault when my PC died and then hung up. That was the "supervisor".They ask you to go into your event viewer and then sort your events and see if there's any errors. They then want you to believe that any errors in there are resulting from malicious software that's been installed on your machine and want you to install software so that they can remotely control your PC so that they can "fix" your problem.Sounded so dodgy from the start - have received 2 calls from these guys now. Indians.

Exactly the same telephone scam to me today in Vancouver BC in Canada.  Caller was adamant that some evil doer was downloading nasty .pnf files to my puter without my knowledge which was, in turn, infecting my hard drive and resulting in" error reports being sent to the nearest router."  (Since my puter is 2 inches away from my router and both are well protected and, moreover, pnf files are merely pre-compiled .inf files I was truly bewildered about what he was talking about.  To add to the confusion, the caller's Indian accent was practically impossible to decode, though he swore he was making a local call.  The call display shows "unknown caller".  Anyway, I eventually just hung up on the guy because the smell of rat was becoming suffocating,  so I'm very relieved to discover this is a recognized scam.  There you have it.  No scam like an old scam.  Beware.  (Now, if I could only figure out how he had my land line tel no.  This particular scam seems to require a fair amount of advance knowledge, phone number / puter owner with online access, etc, , all of which remains somewhat disconcerting.  Hopefully they were just guessing on a random basis, but it still seems a somewhat complicated scam to be very profitable.)

Please be aware these scammers also use another phone number, 02538020308, do not fall for this, they are only there to take your money with no services provided.

I got the call just now. Almost type www.logmein....and I stopped. the web address is very suspicious.

My mother in law also recieved a call from this mob.  They informed her that her computer had a trojan.  She informed them that I worked in a high up position in IT and that she will seek my advice and the caller quickly ended the call.  This company is acting un-professionally please be wary if they call you!  If they call me I will endeavour to find out what they are trying to do your computer and provide a detailed report on their actions using logmein.

Another one today 27/10/2010 (have had this re-occurring). WinPCTech. It's a SCAM. I said that I wanted to come to their office. They wouldn't give me an address. They said that Michael Clarke (not the cricketer) would call. Told them I googled the number and it came up as a scam - they advised me that if I thought it was a scam I should hang up - so I did.