Hi there,I have had 3 calls in 1 week from the company claiming to be called Microassyt?? They are calling from abroad and claim that they work on behalf of windows. He said his name was Alvin Martin, He said my computer has been sending them error codes and that there are harmful files that will infect my computer. I refused to do anything on my computer until he gave me the company registration number which he refused to do. I then googled them and found your post! Is this a scam of some sort? if so is there a way I can report them?Thanks,Gibbs

Microsoft does not employ third party companies to cold call their customers offering technical support.This may just be an attempt to get commision from legitimate software sales sites, but the fact that they 'need' remote access to your PC makes it more likely that they are charging you for the installation of software that will steal your personal information when you do online banking.I know someone who gave this company access, but quickly disconnected their PC once they saw what was being done.  In that short time they had disabled most of the functionality of the antivirus software.  No Thank You MICRO A** YST CORPORATION :P

i recieved a call from a guy named albert who is totally a f***ed scam from india asking for money whenever you recieve such call best answer for him is to say albert martyn just f*** offf he deserves a**hole not our money he is f***ed and screwed guy total scam a**hole.....

hi there ,
 
             my name is mriana hutch and i was having great problems in my computer and same time a person from microassyst called me and made me understand abt all the problems about hacking softwares and how badly they were corrupted my system and same time person named marcus helped me to connect my computer to microsoft engineers and i paid for renewal of my ssl which had made my computer absolutely fast and mmm totally safe so i prefer that its an affiliated genuine company associated with microsoft and i suggest everyone to only take the services from their side they are very helpful
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                                                                                              MICROASSYST CORPORATION

Called about a week ago and claimed that my computer had some expired software that meant i could no longer use SSL certificates with sites like internet banking.
Without much technical knowledge its hard to understand whether this is true or not, but since the company microassyst has basically no google search listings, and they claimed ALL computers lose their ability to make SSL connections to secure sites (if so then everyone would know about this etc), plus their site is just plain dodgy -  so its probably better to hang up the phone. THey also claim they are partners of microsoft, but no evidence is provided. They make all sorts of other claims and throw jargon at you which sort of blinds you from the fact that they are not providing evidence for anything they are telling you.
They try to enable remote assistance which allows them to chat to you on the computer, but they could potentially view and implant files on your computer since file sharing gets enabled in the process of accepting a remote assistance invitation.

*They have private caller ID, however this is the telephone on their website

The call as it came in claimed to be from Microsoft because 'my system had sent them error messages saying I was infected with some Malaysian Malware'. After much questioning the caller provided me with my computer product key as 'proof' that he was on the level. While still suspicious I typed in a command given only for AVG to catagorically block the result.At this point I refused to go further without the caller providing his name, {Steven Games}, his work ID {MCFT0863} and where he was calling from {Calafornia 0805 508 5237}. If I rang back I was to ring 0390 1598 57!I note that caller appeared to be a salesman rather than a techo.I hung up and would advise everybody else to do the same.