got call from an indian john anderson.... seriously...

I just had a call from Sharon and Jason both Indian sounding claiming to be from Microsoft Service Centre wanting to help me fix my computer. Despite that I was extremely sick with little voice, they persisted. I was suspicious as I haven't registered my home phone number with Microsoft. He took me to a page where he wanted me to download an application to allow him remote access without telling me that was what he was doing. If I wasn't already suspicious, I was now and ended the call.
Forever grateful for this webpage and people sharing similiar experiences.
Many thanks

still occuring on April 2012.
Just received a call (Saturday morning) but said I was busy and could I get thier name and number to call them back
'Nigel' sounded unusually indian :), but gave me the company as DECHE4PC (he spelt it out phonetically) and this same number of (02) 9037 8488. I'm filling out the scamwatch.gov.au form as now :)

A lady with a heavy indian accent who gave the name Michelle Fisher called and wanted to speak to my mother who owned the computer and stated she was from Windows services. She gave me an Australian number to call back although the number she called from was an overseas number (as so stated on my home phone). She would not give me any other information and urged that it was important my mother called her. It didn’t sound very legitimate. I am glad I searched the number.

Got a call from them today, very heavy indian style accent, same story as others, I took their company name and number run it through google and got this page. Hope it helps others.

we received a call from NEIL yesterday, indian sounding, but non idian name...  said he was from "Tech A for PC" and that he had received the error reports from our PC.  when we asked him how or what he actually meant he said that when applications fail you have the option of sending a failure report off and that those come to them.  sounded dodge to us...  why would they go to a company and not microsoft?  anyways, he said it's due to junk files that we've downloaded and that they effect the programs.  he said he could run us through deleting them, or we could go to their website to do it.  we said no, that we didn't know who the hell he was and that we would need to investigate him and his company more.  he said we could call him back on (02) 9037 8488.  lucky for google, not that we were going to tell him anything, but on a side issue - someone has been hacking our email and phone so ??? i guess we're a little curious how the F these people get your no.?!

Please Please please....dont talk to people who call from this number and let them access your system....they will take off your antivirus and install something which would further increase viruses into the system...so please hang up when they call you...and never give any credit card details to them...this compant does not exist!!!

The callers from this number are scammers who will purport to be representing telco's or micro soft and claim they have been authourised to advice of serious virus's having been downloaded into your computer and the virus protection on your computer will be defenceless against it. They will provide you with your personal details including D of B that the Telco would have and sounds OK, so you let them in to clean up your computer and before you know it they have installed stuff they never mentioned and wipe your anti virus substituting one that will allow them back into your computer.