today 19/7/11 received a call from with same blurb from Arnold (Indian) and asked to speak to his supervisor named Samuel. Asked for their abn (02) 6588 9101 which doesn't exist on the ACCC website its bogus. The ph num he gave me was (02) 8006 1200 and based in George St Sydney comp name Software Support PC. Said Id' call him back when I checked their bona-fides didn't

dodgy for sure. After a bottle of jacks, i believe anything and they were very convincing. Bastards got $200 bucks from me and card details etc. Managed to stop them getting any thing els.  bloody pricks

The scam involved my widowed sister who was cold called by people with Indian accents to tell her that her computer was about to crash and it had to be fixed immediately or there would be a disaster. In fact that it had a 89% chance of crashing and that it had no firewall to protect itself. (this was before they were given access to the computer). She was first spoken to by a man who then handed the call over to his “supervisor” Jennifer.

They got her to go to the computer and  look at error reports(which were standard error reports) in Vista and convinced her that this was stuff happening right now to her computer.

They made a charge of $112.89 on her credit card then got her to download the program Teamviewer and then remotely accessed her computer to remove her Antivirus (Avast) and to defrag the computer.

Believe me it is a scam.See website below

http://www.bonzer.org.au/?p=26136

Seems the Scumbags are hitting Adelaide numbers now. Same method, there is a problem with your PC/firewall. Go to PC management and look at alarm and information messages etc. Unfortunately for "Sarah" (strong Indian accent) there were only information messages in the record. So it was got to www.teamviewer to down load software so we can access your PC. If you didnot have a problem you soon will!
Think of keeping an air horn or whistle next to the phone for the next time they call!

I received a phone call 5pm March 26th same stories as above, this time the ph no I got was (02) 8005 1832.  They were wanting to download their software to fix all the issues with my computer.  Same questions I asked also...how did you get my ph number...I have wireless pre paid and have only got my home phone connected last week and its a private number!  How dodgy.....

I got a call this evening at about 6:30pm. Some Indian lady asked me if i was the main computer user and said my windows vista contained numerous viruses. Not sure if it was a lucky guess or she had access to some of my info... This is the second call i got from these clowns, the first one when i told her it seemed a bit suspicious then she quickly hung up so i played my cards differently this time. I told her i was away from my PC atm and asked for her company name and telephone number and she gave me the following:Software Support(02) 8006 1200According to White Pages, this company is actually a firm in Queensland so she was clearly being dodgy. These people must be found and locked away.

LOLOLOL the indian lady called back again today, and they rang about 7 times, and when i said, i wasn't interested in your product, they said bye, and a few minutes later, the manager "Ryan Smith" started saying, oh but you wanted to buy it yesterday, and after I'd said, I'd taken it to a professional he started asking "Why, when I told you we could fix it?" and frankly, just got upset because clearly, he wouldn't be able to make any money off me.