Scam still going at August 2012. Indian woman rings with blurb as described by others. When questioned, claims to be from JARS Services at the phone number in the title.

Absolute scam and i almost fell for it, beaware

Had a call from this number saying they were from Microsoft, and that my computer was reported as having viruses. Funny that... considering I have a Mac.

Once I told him that, he just hung up.

Scam.

Should report it to the Police.

Had a call from this number re virus on Microsoft.  I asked how they got my details and he said from when I registered the software.

I then asked him to tell me what date I registered the software......the guy got annoyed!!

I hung up and called Microsoft - this is a scam.

We had a call from this name telling us that we have a downloaded a virus on our computer.  He first introduced himself as from Microsoft and by the end of the conversation said he was from "Jar Support".  My wife who answered the first call said he would need to speak to me about computer issues, he then offered his name as_Donnie Jackson and his phone number as the number listed.  I rang him on this number to confirm it was a scam, he was pushing we had viruses and wanted me to get on the computer and he would guide me through the process.  I asked how he managed to get my phone number and he said from my IP address, collected when we purchased our Microsoft software.  It was at this point I said I wondered how this was possible seeing we don't own Microsoft software.  He then asked what software do we have and I did not give him this information and told him I would take it to fair trading and report him and this number; he then said " OK i am going now!".

i rang back to "windows department". show u errors in event registry, then to clean them, they want to hook into your computer to "clean" them. i laughed & said "i was waiting to see how the scam worked", they immediately hung up.

I received a call today from "Kevin" (Asian accent)  from Jar Support, Adelaide. I told him I am on the "Do Not Call" register and that his call was illegal. He protested that he was legit so I got his name, the name of the company and a phone number: 08 700 41213 and then hung up. When I tried to ring this number, what a surprise, I found that there was no such number!

Hi All,

I just received this call, and when asked he gave me the number 08700 410 12 too. It turns out it's a well known scam, they are just cold calling people and assuming they have a windows computer due to their popularity, they then download a virus to your computer, hang up straight away!