Person with strong accent asked if he was talking with some name, not mine. I said it was a wrong number and then he wanted to talk with the person responsible for my computer. He said that he had been affected by some type of very serious problem, and implied he was calling from Microsoft. He asked me to turn on my computer, at which point I told him not to call again and hung up. I've received one more call that I did not answer.
Customer just called us about her computer that is infected with several pieces of malicious software that she had recieved a phone call from 201-200-9999 stating that they were from Microsoft and they would like to help her fix her computer. First off lets get real Microsoft is not going to call you out of the blue, second if your computer is running badly and someone calls out out of nowhere asking to fix your machine I would be highly suspect that they were the ones causing the issues to begin with. Please be wary if have read a few post where people have paid these folks to fix system through unsolicited phone calls DO NOT DO THIS. If you allow them into your systems you are allowing them full access to you information. Hope this helps :)
Unbelievable - these poeple called me at 11.40pm last night and called again during the day, i listened, then asked for their company name so i could google it, i told that there was info saying this was a scam and the bloke got defensive! I asked why an IT company would not have their own website, he refered me to group they set up on Linkedin, i said that anyone could set a group up there, it means nothing... i advised him i wasn;t interested to which he told me not to bad mouth his company?? WTF... i told him not to call me again and hung up, he called me back!! i was surprised and annoyed... he wouldn;t take no so i told him not to call me back to which he proceeded to call me 10 times in a row, i just didn;t answer the phone... i had about 9 other mums with me that morning who heard the whole thing and were horrified.... i believe in Karma -there are lots of people who need jobs, scamming people is NOT the answer... why why why are poeple silly enough to give a strnager access to theor files, do they not realise that it is so easy to uload software that mirrors every stroke and captureds your passwords... you mihgt not experience anything now but once they have that info they will strike in the future.... be warned....
Just had a call from these "cowboys" and thought I would look up about the company and found this page. I am a computer technician by trade and I'm stunned so many people on here willingly hand over their cash to this company and are encouraging others to do the same.
I was at first intrigued about what they were offering. The guy had me going into event viewer to check for errors etc. Of course I found some and they then tried to get me to allow their technician to remote login to my pc to solve the problems.
Thing is there are no problems, at least I knew that because I have sound computer knowledge and knew what had caused the errors.
So from what i'm reading here is the next step would be me handing over X amount to "fix" my problem.
Now If I didnt know about computers I might have handed over the cash and be saying "yes they are great" etc
But because I work with computers on a day to day basis I know they were going to charge me for fixing something that wasn't broken.
And sounds like many other people have fallen for it. Why pay XX money when most issues can be solved by using google and there are hundreds of help sites that show you various ways to easily maintain your pc and most fixes only take a couple of minutes and not worth £5 of anyones money.