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

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.)

Recieved a call today at 13:12 today (27/10/2010) from a representative from WinPcTech and passed on to a next leir Jimmy who is in india. They got me to look at the evebnt viewer and all it's faults by saying I have a computer problem and will help me resolve my issues. Did ask Jimmy if they knew I had a problem in my computer what system was I erunning and was it eitherr 32/64 byte because one can cause a problem with some downloads. Also told that will be given AVG, will be valid till 2018 which I found hard to believe. Got the name of company, phone number, web site address and said I'd check them out on the web to see if they are a scam. Jimmy was nice and with some indepth question he did falter in that asked am I running XP, Vista or Window 7 and he picked the wrong one again making me think a scam especially when they will require of me $100 and gfeel when I ring the number given to me they will ask for probably my banking info which regardless they wouldn't get anyway. Jimmy seemed a bit confused re: term, gatherer and when I mentioned the term backweb he didn't seem to have a clue or glossed over it.Must admit it sounded good at a reasonable price with lots of bonuses to get you in so I do really wisjh it is true but as they say if it's to good to be true it is?Cheers,Hoppy from Alice She Jumps

had numerous calls from this number regarding my computer security not being safe and they have tracked somebody trying to get into my computer. Anyone else had calls about this?

Unfortunately the scammers using this number can't be affected in any huge way by anything you do to this number.  I got the same scam (telling me my computer was infected etc) from a withheld number and when I asked them for a callback number they kindly told me (02) 9016 4321, which is ironic as they told me they were based in Melbourne.  But seeing as I had heard about the scam I reported it to the ACCC (www.scamwatch.gov.au or phone the ACCC).  The nice man at Scamwatch told me that the scammers actually use Skype, and that the phone number they give you probably does redirect to their overseas location.  However while the ACCC are collecting all the information they can, it is difficult for them to make prosecutions outside their jurisdiction.  And I don't know what kind of telephone bill you can rack up calling a number connected to Skype (hopefully only local call charges...)

However he did tell me how to stop them calling!  Just tell them you know it is a scam!  Then they know they won't get any money out of you and they won't bother you any more :P

Ah, got the call today!

Some good times as I kept making mistakes with the guy's instructions :)

I went one step too far when I said my CLSID was different and I was really worried about it!!!

He hung up on me!

Still, its a guy who needs to do a job so I have a degree of empathy for them, but nuts to that crap!

Received the same phone call in Vancouver, BC - This is terrible.  Too many calls received like this.  I hung up and he called back twice in a row with different phone numbers.

FYI - tell your friends.