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!

Call from 365 support - same thing, from Microsoft with dire warnings  of viruses that my commercial virus software could not detect. Asked her to email our security group the instructions to check for these 'super' viruses... as expected she could only give the instructions personally. I found using an Indian accent and mumbling did the trick!
Said she was in Adelaide and gave (08) 7200 0365 as her number.

I have had the pleasure of 3 calls from this 'company'.  As our phone number is listed under my wife's maiden name (Telstra havent bothered to update the phone book for 10 years!), I am immediately suspicious of anyone enquiring after Mr or Mrs Smith.  My wife took the fist (2 weeks ago) call and when she said she was not Mrs Smith, the caller called her a lair, to which my wife took exception and hung up.  They called back within 30 seconds and I took the call. I listened to the speil about the danger to my PC before laughing telling the caller I thought he was pulling my leg.  At this point he launched into a verbal tirade calling me mother f****r among other things before hanging up. I guess the call wasn't being recorded for training purposes

Tonight I received a 3rd call from 365PC Support.  This time I asked questions.  They told me they were located in Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide.  As I know Adelaide reasonably well I persisted with questions.  I asked which floor they were on (Westpac House has 31 Floors - Adelaides biggest building housing several companies) and was told they owned it all. I asked which other road the building faced and he told me to look it up (obviously becoming frustrated).  I kept him on the line for 17 minutes asking qusetions and having a general chat.  This time his name was Nathan and he was Portuguese.  He likes beer and whiskey, but not grass or hash. We discussed night clubbing, horses and match fixing.  I asked him where he lived and he said Heaven.  I think he had had enough of me.

Same story today.  my wife got the call.  very urgent, just follow the instructions.  they show you the event viewer which shows a number of alerts - of course there are always alerts of some type or another in the event viewer!  this is normal.  Steve Wilson was the man's name - same phone number and his supervisor was Albert Wilson.  who would guess - two indian sounding gents, and they are brothers to boot.  avoid like the plague.

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

I have a similar story of computer going to crash etc. Again it was 'Michelle' with Indian accent. Only this time she was working for 365 PC Support. When I asked where they were located she wouldn't give me a phone number but said they were at 91 King William Street, Adelaide. Strange they weren't in the phone book.I rang Adelaide Fraud Squad and was assured that it was a crime group operating from India but pretending to be in Adelaide and using phone numbers that look like ours. The detective told me to ignore them.

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?