Caller: ATO

Same as a lot of you, prerecorded call, saying I owe money to tax and a warrant has been put out for my arrest. I just hung up.

Caller: Mark Wilson

Said he was from Telstra , that my internet would be cut off from 6.00 pm tonight snd that several people were using my internet.

It is the bastards who runs the telephone services who sell our numbers to them. We just lie down and take it like cowards.

Have had the same call multiple times now. It has been going on for a few months and they won't stop calling.

(02) 8005 0590 - Scam Number

We had two call's from them last night first at 5pm and my mum told them we did not have a computer and asked for there name and number which they gave her. Then at about 8pm they called back and I answered the call. The same usual spin "hello I'm a microsoft technician and you have virisus on your computer". I said it's ok I can fix it myself as I work for 'MICROSOFT" and guess what the phone
went dead silent and they hung up on me. Hopefully they won't be calling back.

These guys have rung here at least 50 times over many months, the latest is now a tirade of verbal abuse and racial comments and swearing profanity to us on the phone by these people, what powers do australian regularity bodies have to shut these clowns down

Hi yes this is a scam.
1. You can tell they are reading a script
2. They won't give their company name (in case you google it)
3. They call with number withheld and are reluctant to give you their number so you can call back
4. They say "your computer is showing an error" but if you ask, "would that be the desktop or laptop?" they say "either" meaning they don't care
5. They ask you to do something plausible - twice now they've talked me through opening the event viewer to see how many errors there are; express horror if more than 10 - but these are simple housekeeping errors, things like trying to access a disk before its up to speed or terminating an office programme suddenly.
6. A new one for me today - start the cmd window and enter "assoc"; scroll down to the bottom and see the zfsendtotarget entry - the operator will read out the CLSID and remarkably (!) read it out to you to show she knows it is your computer serial number  - but everyone's is the same

Sooner or later they want you to enter their company into a "logmein" screen so they can "fix" these non-existant errors and either strip your on-line banking details or sharge you $100 for a non-existant service.

So steer well clear

I was also called up. When my partner called them back he was told the same thing despite not knowing which number I was calling from (called via Skype with a mobile caller ID different from the home phone). He insisted on having my number and calling me back to help me.Is there a charge? Yes, an $89 once off fee and then all other service calls for that number would be free.And who am I speaking to? The Windows Service Centre for XP, Vista and 7!!What a scam man!

I am from Singpaore and got a call from WINDOWS (as they said) and told me that my computer is affected by the malware etc. and this is finishing my computer. Guaranteed the call was from India because they were speaking Hindi language also (as one of my colleague in my office speaks hindi and I can identify few words definiately.)

She asked me to get onto my PC and lead me into the 'Computer Management console', here she asked me to look for any errors marked with red X's, now of course there were because there always is from one thing or another. She asked me to count them and tell her how many, as if I would be scared by the 'dangerous' number of errors.

She then given it to the senior and he lead me into CMD or the 'Command Console' and asked me to run the 'ASSOC' command.

This brings up a list of all the different file extensions being used on my computer, he made out that this was a list of all the virus/tojan programs on my system.

Then he asked me to scroll down and read out the ZFSENDTOTARGET CLSID in order to 'identify' my computer and make sure it was the correct one.

After this I switch off my wi-fi so that nothing can go wrong *(just in case). then they have given me a phone number (funny) saying this is international toll free number i.e. 613900186185 and told me to call him either before 1 pm and at late evening.

I am 100% sure that Microsoft will never call you like this. This is 100% a scam. Please in case if you received the call like this, share it with everyone and don't give any of your important information of your computer. Take care and best of luck.

Like others, I've received several phone calls from www.winpctech.net. Cold calls from India.I went along with it to a point,as the offer to "fix virus and windows application problems" by remote seemed plausible, given outsourcing and micro companies. Operator was polite, seemed genuine, as does the Website I was referred to.  Max Williams was mentioned, along with $93 for 3yr warranty (?) and tech help offer. I'm not tech savvy, so felt uncomfortable about running things, counting error messages and the suggestions of a virus on my computer.I refused when credit card details, phone no and addrress were required, even though seems info will be encrypted. Last call the operator "Jimmy"did not seem to get my need for some guarantee of service beyond his assurance or that winpctech was being reported as a scam. Just kept requesting I call (02) 8006 2085 to check up. Maybe I will. Either winpctech is bogus or someone else's giving them a really bad name that they need to do something about.

I've had 3 calls from the same Indian guy over the last 2 months.  Decided to find out a bit more about who was calling instead of hanging up straight away.  Win PC Technology was the company, claim to be microsoft certified, offered assistance for a virus problem that I did not have and had not reported; eventually told them I would investigate the situation and would get back to them.  They claimed they would fix the problem for free, but with prompting then told me I could then purchase software for around $50-80 to ensure the problem did not re-occur.  David Gibbs (very Indian) told me he was from Sydney.  So the scam has been going for many months.

I have had a call from the above telephone number re virus on windoes Is it genuine
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