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.

Tried going through Online Fraud reporting - at the end I got this message (the online system didn't give me the option to report the phone number, so they are obviously not that interested):

Thank you for taking time to complete the Action Fraud report. From the answers you have given we believe that this is a matter that should be reported to Consumer Direct. Consumer Direct are a Government funded service who take reports on scams.

0845 404 0506 or Minicom 0845 1281 384. Open 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 1pm on Saturday.


www.consumerdirect.gov.uk

There was no obvious section on their website to report the fraudulant number/organisation, so I gave up. Maybe someone with more time to spare might do this.

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.

I am getting one call every day from numbers like this.Also 0441274925390   and 01274663293The phone is always dead when I pick it up.....  and when I try to redial the number is not recognised.  This has only started in the last 3 weeks.What goes on ?

Tried going through Online Fraud reporting - at the end I got this message (the online system didn't give me the option to report the phone number, so they are obviously not that interested):Thank you for taking time to complete the Action Fraud report. From the answers you have given we believe that this is a matter that should be reported to Consumer Direct. Consumer Direct are a Government funded service who take reports on scams.0845 404 0506 or Minicom 0845 1281 384. Open 8am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 1pm on Saturday.www.consumerdirect.gov.ukThere was no obvious section on their website to report the fraudulant number/organisation, so I gave up. Maybe someone with more time to spare might do this.

just got call from this number also.  women  (in very broken english) claiming to be a "windows technician" wanting to fix error in my computer. told her i was on my way out and came on here to find out about this as wasnt aware of any scam but knew it sounded really dodgy. glad I did! thanks

I had this number call me several times, Oddly, the first few times they just stayed silent and hung up anyway. This afternoon They called and a foreign lady informed me my computer had faults, I played dumb to waste her time and said " oh dear I don't want faults" She asked me to turn it on. I said ok.After several minutes she asked "is it on yet" I said "no its says syntax error rewind cassestte"She said what kind of computer do you have? I said "spectrum plus 2" She hung up! :-)