I was told these people were from bigpond and same thing as everyone else my computer was infected. Do not believe these people

I received a call from Tamara advising that my computer was infected from all the down loading I had been doing. I never mentioned this to her. I had just finished reading about similar scams in our local paper about an hour earlier so I was not tricked. for a minute ..although I led her on for about 15 minutes to see what the scam was all about. I asked where she was ringing from and she said India.In the end I asked for a phone number and web site address which brought me here.Run a decent anti spyware program to check for infiltration if you gave permission to remotely control your computer.Professional looking web sites are no guarantee of authenticity ..it is easy to do web sites with a bit of knowledge.In future use a sandbox if you want solid on line

(02) 8014 7459 CallSame thing happened to me - they know your name, I don't know how.Isn't this something that should be reported to police

I Have received a same phone call but I was very patient and tried to follow the steps that he was telling me though I know the stuffs fully well but at the end he transferred the call to the supervisor and he did something which through logmein is something which is very interesting and the person who was doing the things on remote console has a very good technical knowledge and they never intervained into my personal details. A through professional.

I got my first call from this type of scammer just now. Their company is 'Tech For Help'; their web site is www.techforhelp.com. It looks quite professional.First there was a female Indian on the line who asked for me by name ? which always gives me a bit of a shiver. Okay, they can read the phone book, but still it lends some initial credence to the call. After asking me to turn on my computer, what sort of Windows does it run, etc, she had me click on START / run and run the 'eventvwr'. Lo and behold, I was told that the various 'Warning' and RED(!) 'Error' listings in the event log were signs that I had been infected by web and virus files.Several times, microseconds after painfully instructing me on each step of running the command, she would tell me NOT to actually click on any of the warning/error events, because "that would activate the very dangerous virus" (words to that effect). I guess the point of that was to ensure that I didn't do so, read the details and get an idea that the 'warning/error' wasn't that big a deal after all. And has a hyperlink to Microsoft support. No, keep the customer in the dark.Then she passed me on to her technical supervisor, a male Indian, who continued proceeding along that path, ultimately getting me to run up Internet Explorer, connect to their web site and then click on the 'support technical' link, which brings up the 'LogMeIn support connection' that has been mentioned here.It was at the point where XP was asking me if I wanted to relax firewall rules and give full permission to 'Bryan Wayne', one of their 30 'system engineers', that I got nervous.Not very nice people, praying on fear, uncertainty and doubt. Making very sure I don't actually *read* those error/warning messages. Every third or fourth sentence telling me that they were caused by my machine being infected by viruses. Finally, before I hung up, I was asking about charges; no sir, this was all free, although you said your computer was 5 years old so it would be out of warranty and you might have to renew your warranty ...  I see from the posts here that they would have, indeed, tried to have me do that.Ugh. The Internet would be so much more fun if it wasn't for the scum inhabiting it.

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Same thing happened to me - they know your name, I don't know how.
Isn't this something that should be reported to police

Why don't we ring them and offer to fix, sell, advertise, hound, scam and blog them until there ears bleed, just a thought.