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

Parents received a similar call regarding an error with their notebook which apparently had viruses and errors in windows.  The only thing is my parents have never been online with their notebook (no net access at their house) and only use it for word processing.  Seems very suspicous

Yes, I just got a call now about malaware and virus problems on my computer.  I was having computer problems last night so their story was plausible.  However, I was wary so asked for a number to call them back.  They gave (02) 8006 2085.  When I called it, I received a voicemail message with no identifying company details etc so will be ignoring this from now on.

Yep, got a call today from company calling themself Win Tek Support, said they've recently opened this Microsoft Tech support office in Manchester, UK.  Extention from their "Miami" base (probably because of my American accent).  Ronald (Sr Tech) laughed at me when I said I'd look into this further and decide on it later.  He first tried with the scare tactic and when that had no affect, he implied my responses were idiotic and continued to laugh at me.  Needless to say, I told him to have a blessed day.

I just received a call from a "Microsoft agent" Saying that they had detected a virus broadcasting from my computer and that they where able to track me down using my CLSID. "Jimmy" kept insisting that I go to my computer and turn it on so he can match the CLSID automatically. I knew he was full of s**t for a couple reasons:

- The line went "blup" when I picked up, so this was random dialed.
- The operator did not speak french, my windows is in french. He barely speaked English.
- He did not know my computer was already ON !!!
- I never divulged my phone number to software companies.

So unless someone calls you directly and knows: your NAME, your PHONE number and ACCOUNT number at their company, IT IS A GOD DAMNED SCAM.

Hey, Today I got caught out with this scam, yes it is a scam and unfortunately it worked on me as I had downloaded windows 7 recently and it was saying it was not genuine. Then today and indian fellow claiming to be from Microsoft called regarding error messages being sent from my network. Im not to savvy with that kind of thing so I was pretty scared at this point. They walked me through finding these error messages on my computer(A different one to the one with the ungenuine windows error message) and then proceeded to walk me throught typing www.logmein123.com and gave me a code so a technitian could accsess my computer and clear the threats and errors. I thought the non genuine windows computer on the same network had corrupt and someone was hacking me ><. they accessed my computer and I could see him moving the mouse around he then went into CMD and typed tree and thousands of documents flew onto the black box. I paniced at this time and turned the computer off. returned about 10 minutes later and turned it back on. by this time they stell had access so I cancled it and did a google search, and here I am, i disconnected the computer from the internet and changed various email paswords on another computer and the user password of the one they got into. DONT FALL FOR THIS, I dont know what they might have their hands on of mine but It cant be good, im just going to hope for the best and keep firewall tunred on lol/

I've been called three times by WinPCTech in the last 4 days (in Melbourne), even though am on the do not call register, which I bluntly reminded them of each time and - don't even own a PC!  Definite scam.  Who ensures that companies who ignore the do not call register are fined?