Scammers, plain and simple. Trying to gain access to your computer

I have had quite a number of these calls too. The one a few nights ago (who couldn't even properly identify who he was supposed to be representing!) was an almost unintelligible Indian gentleman revelling in the name of Mac Taylor. Mac Taylor! You have to be joking!! (anyone else watch CSI New York????). He was fast with the double talk when I asked him to give me the serial number of the machine in question, and even faster when I asked him to send an email to the email on my registration details he claimed to have, outlining the supposed problem. I told him I was nowhere near the computer as I was outside attending to animals and still he kept asking me to just turn on the computer. Asked him to repeat what I had said to him the last time he said to do so and he got really tongue tied. Have some fun with them when they ring and waste their time. It's what a con man deserves.

Scammers.

Call (03) 9008 4298 and ask for "Shaun Davis". Be polite and request support. Once you have a "support call" going pretend to follow instructions. If you are asked "what can you see" or "what has come up" or anything similar say "I see a picture of a horse".

couldn't tell me what was wrong with my computer which computer had the problem ( have 6 in the house) comes up with overseas caller ID

They had my elderly father on the phone for over 1.5 hours, telling him to click this and that etc,they called back the next day to finish what they were wanting to do but I didnt engage with them just took Dannys number,what type of damage has been done to the computer? To scared to turn it on now.

thanks for your help Rat Catcher
I did not realise they were world wide they told me they were in Carlton Vic on (03) 9008 4298 which I rang and they confirmed name World PC TECH co

They called me but when I said I was from Microsoft, they put someone else on the phone. I called them back and told them I needed help with my computer and just so they know, I told them they were on the radio as we were trying to see if they could help me. They insisted they were in Melbourne, but didn't even know what a post code was, or what part of Australia Melbourne was in.

Indian scammers

they claim to be from "worldpccare.com.au" and claim to be based in Melbourne, they are not.
They are part of a scam centre based in Kota India.
refer the link below for more info re these tip rats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres

If contacted hang up, call consumer affairs NSW and report the incident.

HILARIOUS! "mr brown" had a word with "shane watson" and "danny watson" wow. So many caucasian names considering every f****ng call ive got from these bottom feeders is from INDIA. Kill yourselves you disgusting scammers,

nobody can get access in ur computer untill u allow them to do so. If someone does it means that u allowed him or her to do so. If somebody rang u and dirctly ask u to turn on ur computer, it feels uneasy.If our govt. warn us abt these things than we should take care of it.

Pc scam called me as above - International call number

I let them take me through the run "eventvwr"

Then from command line  "inf virussystemfile"   this of course just opens up the INF directory
( "inf elephant" will do the same)

He then said this was a list of all the virus infected files and then wanted me to web directly to "www.support.me"  - Do not go here !!!

I then said google told me support.me resolved to scam links and I was "scared"

He then gave me the phone number and said I could call - So playing along I did and no-one answered in 8 rings so I hung up then he immediately called me up saying it was proof it wasn't a scam

At this point I informed them that I was a IT Professionla of 20 years and that those event viewer and Inf commands showed nothing and that I was glad I got to waste a good portion of his time..
At which point he hung up!!

;-)

i received a call today from a lady claiming one of my kids downloaded a game and put a virus on the computer. I asked her how she knew it was my kids. I then asked if she worked for telstra and she replied no she was from customer service of World PC...
When she asked me to turn on my computer i told her no and that she could ring back when my husband was home. After googling the phone number i find this blog so thanks to everyone who has made a comment. Unfortunately i am sure there are plenty of poor victims who have been sucked in by this. Keep this going to avoid other poor victims having their computers compromised.

thanks :-)

hi this company is not a scam they are very much  legitimate  i am registered with worldpctech for long two years i had a word with Danny Watson and Lisa and they both are very helpful .                   thanks alot

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