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

Exactly the same telephone scam to me today in Vancouver BC in Canada.  Caller was adamant that some evil doer was downloading nasty .pnf files to my puter without my knowledge which was, in turn, infecting my hard drive and resulting in" error reports being sent to the nearest router."  (Since my puter is 2 inches away from my router and both are well protected and, moreover, pnf files are merely pre-compiled .inf files I was truly bewildered about what he was talking about.  To add to the confusion, the caller's Indian accent was practically impossible to decode, though he swore he was making a local call.  The call display shows "unknown caller".  Anyway, I eventually just hung up on the guy because the smell of rat was becoming suffocating,  so I'm very relieved to discover this is a recognized scam.  There you have it.  No scam like an old scam.  Beware.  (Now, if I could only figure out how he had my land line tel no.  This particular scam seems to require a fair amount of advance knowledge, phone number / puter owner with online access, etc, , all of which remains somewhat disconcerting.  Hopefully they were just guessing on a random basis, but it still seems a somewhat complicated scam to be very profitable.)

mother got a phone call about this and was directed to go to a site  called www.logmein.com. which asked for a security number. has any one else had this site yet?

i had a call from these people and recognised it as a scam straight away..Now i am the type of person who takes this kind of thing personally how dare they ring my number when i am on the dont call register..It does not eat me up inside but they are going to wish they never called..AS a customer with vphone i have unlimited calls i have their number and i have passed this number to some friends so let the harrassment begin.phone swiched to no caller id...so now whenever i  think of it when im driving when i am working whenever i sit and have a few beers with mates morning noon and night this number will be called for a laugh and giggle..last call i made this afternoon i asked the fellow if i could bring him some curry.If everyone was to harass this number whenever they can they can they would soon have to change it then the gov wouldnt allow them a new number.i feel sorry for the people who get caught out lets try to put a stop to this indian company making money from the gullible.This is an australian number being used to scam people worldwide...As for the people who work for this company well they are open to abuse or get another job..boohoo....people google (02) 8006 2085

Exactly the same telephone scam to me today in Vancouver BC in Canada.  Caller was adamant that some evil doer was downloading nasty .pnf files to my puter without my knowledge which was, in turn, infecting my hard drive and resulting in" error reports being sent to the nearest router."  (Since my puter is 2 inches away from my puter and both are well protected and, moreover, pnf files are merely pre-compiled .inf files I was truly bewildered about what he was talking about.  To add to the confusion, the caller's Indian accent was practically impossible to decode, though he swore he was making a local call.  *The call display shows "unknown caller".  Anyway, I eventually just hung up on the guy because the smell of rat was becoming suffocating,  so I'm very relieved to discover this is a recognized scam.  There you have it.  No scam like an old scam.  Beware.  (Now, if I could only figure out how he had my land line tel no.  This particular scam seems to require a fair amount of advance knowledge, phone number / puter owner with online access, etc, , all of which remains somewhat disconcerting.  Hopefully they were just guessing on a random basis, but it still seems a somewhat complicated scam to be profitable.)

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

Had them for the first time today. I am a PC tech so had a lot of fun with him. He was persistent, he called me back three times, not knowing I'd hung up on him and blaming his connection.They asked me to do all of the things mentioned in the thread and I asked him how he knew there was a problem with my computer. He said initially he was from Microsoft and when I cottoned on, he admitted he was from a different company. FOR ANY NOVICES: DONT do what these people are asking you to do. You can in fact give them access to your computer by following there instructions. HANG UP ON THEM!I happened to annoy my guy enough that he hung up on me. I think it was me laughing at his demands that annoyed him.