That phone number was given to me as a company called " WINDOWS SERVICE CENTER "the name of the technician that give me that number is "Charlie" and is supervisor is name is "Ralph".

Had 2 calls today. First was a heated exchange with 'Kevin' who certainly gave as good as he got, not what you would expect from a company affiliated with Microsoft. He told me he was from 'tech 2 tech' then it changed to 'Slap' and this was after the call was introduced as being from Microsoft and then hastily changed to Windows.

Both calls were extremely pushy and wanted me to access my computer (there are several in the house, and they would not specify which one was infected, it didn't appear to matter to them of course).

Second call was from 'Mark' who appeared not to pay any attention when I read him an article from The Guardian which detailed this scam almost word for word.

This is a scam! I couldn't see the phone number this person was calling from. I asked him where I could call him back and he gave me this number. He said his name was Ralph (with an Indian accent) from Ontario and that he was calling from the Windows Service Centre regarding a problem with my computer.

I knew from the start that this was a scam. So I faked going on my computer and was asking for directions. He would ask to use my windows key + the letter R. Then type event vwr and click ok. I stopped there since I didn't want to do anything to compromise my computer.

That phone number was given to me as a company called " WINDOWS SERVICE CENTER "
the name of the technician that give me that number is "Charlie" and is supervisor is name is "Ralph".

This is a scam! I couldn't see the phone number this person was calling from. I asked him where I could call him back and he gave me this number. He said his name was Ralph (with an Indian accent) from Ontario and that he was calling from the Windows Service Centre regarding a problem with my computer.I knew from the start that this was a scam. So I faked going on my computer and was asking for directions. He would ask to use my windows key + the letter R. Then type event vwr and click ok. I stopped there since I didn't want to do anything to compromise my computer.

same overhere

they tryed to enter my computer and kept talking ... after a while I understood that they wanted to sell mee a virus program .. imidiatly I closed the connection and restored my computer 1 day back ... no harm done ( I hope ) ...

bert abbing ( the netherlands )