i received a call from this number telling me that my computer was badly infected. i did not go on my computer. man said his name was charlie and his manager was michael lewis. this needs to stop.
These people just called my parents. They called me after they already allowed them on to the computer. Got them all hyped up same info as the other, said he was simon from pc support squad. I called the number while they were on the phone with him and first someone answered and just kept saying hello over and over like they couldn't hear me. I called a second time and then Simon answered. It was real fishy how that all went down. I used redial I know I got the number correct.
I told my parents to disconnect, it is a scam and never do this again.
My fear is they gave them the computer id and has has been on the computer remotely. Now we need to figure out if this is going to cause them any damage to computer or financially. They gave no financial info so we may have dodged a bullet. Who knows what info they got off the computer during the process. They said they would call him back and disconnected.
PLEASE BEWARE -- Got a call from this number this afternoon (after many, many previous calls that when I answered no one was there or responded). Should have trusted my gut instinct and hung up, but the guy was SO believable that I got suckered in (something that RARELY happens). They "supposedly" fixed all the error reports and warnings that were on my computer, but only after I purchased a service agreement for one year to the tune of $149. Should have gone online while the guy was on the phone and checked it out before I agreed to giving the information (which they say they couldn't see on their end of things... yeah right).
Now I'm in conversation with my credit card company to put a stop-payment on the charges and be aware of any other fraudulent charges that may arise, spent the last two hours undoing everything they did to my computer (luckily I have a good security system in place that was able to uninstall all their crap) and do a system restore. Definitely a SCAM.
Got a call from "Payphone 585-243-9768. Guy sounded like he was from India, said he was with Technical Support and they had been recieving reports from my windows computer that I was downloading viruses and malware. He never asked my name, asked if my computer was turned on, I said no, (I lied) he asked me to turn it on. I asked him "what company are your from?" and he said "Windows service center, Microsoft windows service center." I asked how he got my number. He said "survey department in your area gave me your number." I don't do surveys, and if it was a survey how was he recieving data from my 'puter? My cell phone rang then, so I handed it to a relative to answer while I told this indian guy I had to go answer the cell phone, i would have to call him back, what number could I call him back at? he gave 786-600-1027. Since he never verified my name, my OS, or phone number, since caller id came up Payphone, and since he asked stupid questions he shoulda been able to answer by looking at his own keyboard, I hung up with him and went to the Better Business Bureau's website and looked up both numbers. They have to record of either one, so I reported them to the Do Not Call registry. I will not be calling him back.
Called repeatedly, caller ID shows "624". Told "Adam" that connection was bad and I needed a number to call back from a better phone. Gave me 786-600-1027. He called back in 5 mins and I started answering his calls as "Federal Trade Commission. Are you calling to file a complaint?". He hung up for some reason. LOL. We shall see if he calls back.