I had 2 calls today from PC Masters who appear to be in Sydney. I am suspicious that somehow my earlier enquiry to NAB had something to do with this.

I have had (02) 8005 7298 call me 6 times today. Spoke to man also claiming that I have windows problems, these guys have rang me at least twice before in the last 12 months. I'm afraid my language was pretty "blue" which explained why he had to ring me back so many times to try to beat my rudeness!! I work in IT so am well aware what they are doing- is there any way of blocking these calls?

Had a call from this number today.  I am always suspicious of any unsolicited calls, as I have registered not to receive any.  Its the usual scam technique.  The caller has a strong accent from overseas; Indian subcontinent, but pretends to be called John, Jack, James or Stacey, or any other Anglo-Saxon sounding name.  Say they are ringing from Windows, or Window's approved provider to make them sound convincing.  Explain that there is an urgent fault with your computer/error messages etc and you need to log on or go to their website etc.  Never want to give you a number to call or put you through to a supervisor and usually hang up if you ask too many questions.

I spoke to BT about this, because they are often calling from abroad its difficult for BT to block the calls apparently.  The BT guy said whatever you do don't log onto any website or give them any of your details.  Its definitely a scam.  Not sure what BT or any of the Office of Fair Trading, Consumer Direct, the Police's computer crime units, or local councils' trading standards teams are doing to combat it.  If enough people report these calls often enough to as many of these organisations as possible, then the annoyance factor to these statutory organisations will kick in and they will have to take action to shut them down.

(02) 8005 7298 was the number they were calling from apparently.  Time BT allowed caller dialing number from international calls as well.

Add me to the lengthy list of 'victims' above.  I've just had the call (10.15, 20/05/2011) with the same overall message - "calling to alert you to problems on your computer"; "your computer will crash at any time"; "switch your computer on now". A chap, with an Asian accent, knew my name, telephone number and address. Eventually, he was very curt and put the phone down after I was (obviously) very suspicious and did not do what he wanted.  Scarey though .... and I wonder what would have happened if I had switched the computer on.  These people should be traced, tried and locked up (assuming guilty!)

I received exactly the same call as FG just minutes ago. They are preying on peoples inexperience of computers by getting them to check event viewer. Event Viewer constantly generates alerts in one form or another (usually application errors - these are what the fraudsters rely on). This does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong with your computer at all.As someone Studying for a degree in computer security I had a long winded conversation with the 'gentleman' on the other side of the line and proved that there was nothing wrong with my machine, at which point he hung up on me.Calls from this number are a scam, they lure you to a website and get you to enter contact and payment details for them to remotely fix your pc.There calls should be reported as fraud using the fraud reporting tool on the Mets fraud website www.actionfraud.org.uk - it takes a couple of minutes and you don't have to provide your own details unless you want to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centresThe guardian has done a story on this!

This is some kind of a scam to get you to give out your computer password