what the f*ck is up with these scamers if anyone offers you a deal to fix your computer just hang up or tell them to f*ck off

14 May 2011 - got a call from this company at 1830 hours this Sat night stressing that I had alot of Trojans and viruses and that my computer would crash if I did not fix it IMMEDIATELY. Stated they run a 24/7 service for Microsoft. Following a prolonged 36 minutes conversation I refused to pay the $173 to fix it until I verified the company on Monday and the person hung up! SCAM for sure as I tried ringing company on Monday and could not get through!

I just got a call from a dodgy call from a company called Desksense, the caller stated that he was representing Microsoft and that Desksense had received log files which had alerted his company that there were problems with my PC.What annoyed mne was that he had my name, address and phone number, so The caller was very persistent, I expalined to him that I have been in IT for over 20 years and was suspicious about the call. He directed me to the www.desksense.com for proof of the company bonafides.I said to him that I could set up a similar web site as some sort of proof and was not convinced, hung up on him.I asked him which version of Windows I was running, which he should have been to tell me if he had received any error reports from the O/S. Naturally he couldn't, which made me even more suspicious, he then tried to turn around my question and find out what I was running.This a scam, hang up straight away and definitely don't give them access to your computer.

Dodgy calls from IT Support for Microsoft under the company "System Assist"

i received this message  from a foriegn voice saying my computor would crash and asked me to turn on
my computer and follow his instructions by pressing start thenprogressing to run theninto files.....
at this point I decided not to continue.  I closed the computer and phone. He rang back and begged
me to try again. who is this person?

Looks like these fellas are persistent!!! The "new company" is now System Assist, based in Perth (mind you their area code is 02!). My husband and I were thrilled that they hired "Peter Gabriel" as IT support!!!!Really really dodgy!!!!

Received a phone call from and Indian sounding bloke calling himself 'Richard' of a Microsoft subsidiary company called 'Desksense'.He said that my home computer needed fixing to prevent persons hacking into it.  He gave the return number of  (02) 8014 4592.I am concerned that he was attempting to gain information to banking details

I just got a call from a dodgy call from a company called Desksense, the caller stated that he was representing Microsoft and that Desksense had received log files which had alerted his company that there were problems with my PC.

What annoyed mne was that he had my name, address and phone number, so

The caller was very persistent, I expalined to him that I have been in IT for over 20 years and was suspicious about the call. He directed me to the www.desksense.com for proof of the company bonafides.

I said to him that I could set up a similar web site as some sort of proof and was not convinced, hung up on him.

I asked him which version of Windows I was running, which he should have been to tell me if he had received any error reports from the O/S. Naturally he couldn't, which made me even more suspicious, he then tried to turn around my question and find out what I was running.

This a scam, hang up straight away and definitely don't give them access to your computer.