I just got a call from Pamela. Wow she is persistent i nearly fell for it. She would do any thing to sell me the deal of joining ACCOR and get free accomdation and 50% off everything holiday related. I feel a bit stupid i am glad that while i was on the phone i googled her number she was calling off and asked her name. I hope no else falls for it!

Hi - August 20th.  I have just received the same call from someone with an Indian accent.  He gave me to understand he was from the Microsoft Help Desk and they were aware I kept getting Error messages and that I had a virus.  It was difficult to understand all he was saying.  I asked him how did I know he was legit and he gave me the phone number.  Anyway I told him I don't have a landline in my study so he would have to call me back on my mobile.  Silly me, I gave him my mobile number but he hasn't called back.  I have my name on the Do Not Call Register so he is breaking some law or other.  Who do we report him to?

Even i had a similar call and a guy called Hari Decrz Introduced himself, saying he is a representative of 365 PC Support...He kept talking and talking...finally i had to be saying please dont trouble again....

i had this guy hassling my 73 YO mother. had her install from logmein.com and took control of her computer. he said he was calling from microsoft, and that he had detected viruses on her computer, and wanted her to pay for ongoing security support. he asked for her credit card details, and at this point she balked. obviously this guy (he called himself "shane" but it's obviously the same indian guy) is findable, so why haven't the police been to visit him with bit effoff belting sticks?

also, why is there no call type here for FRAUD?

Same call today. As I am a PC tech who has clients who have been scammed by these types of calls, I was quite interested to listen to the spiel.There was no real onformation in the call just lots of words malware, viruses, windows etc. When they stated that these things "couldn't be removed" I asked "well how can you remove them then?" they replied "because we are technicians", to which I had a little chuckle. I had to leave so I got their number to call them back.I might call them back at get their logmein account info if I can and report them to logmein, maybe they will shutthem down?There must be somewhere this can be reported to. The number 087200365 is an Australian PSTN number, it may be redirected O/S, but surely it can be shutdown from this end.

i to today 29/10/2010 had the same call stating she was from microsoft her name was pamela with indian accent and worker id A408 they to took over my computer and tryed to tell me i had bad malicious data on my computer then trying to get me to pay 300 to put some anti virus software to protect me on the comp when i told here i had no credit card and some of us aussies are poor she started to get really revved up as to say i didnt pay she was getting angry and started demand things put in the end i had a suspicion they where a hoax trying to get money but will be reporting it to the cops or someone to sort this out

Same call today. As I am a PC tech who has clients who have been scammed by these types of calls, I was quite interested to listen to the spiel.

There was no real onformation in the call just lots of words malware, viruses, windows etc. When they stated that these things "couldn't be removed" I asked "well how can you remove them then?" they replied "because we are technicians", to which I had a little chuckle. I had to leave so I got their number to call them back.

I might call them back at get their logmein account info if I can and report them to logmein, maybe they will shutthem down?

There must be somewhere this can be reported to. The number 087200365 is an Australian PSTN number, it may be redirected O/S, but surely it can be shutdown from this end.