This rude man with a heavy accent from India calls every week saying he is from Microsoft and he will help us find out who has been trying to hack into our computer. I know that Microsoft doesn't have my home phone number. He kept demanding that I go to my computer and sign on. I asked him which one and he said #7.
I told him I don't have 7 computers. He was getting very irritated with me because I knew he was only wanting access to my computer. I asked him what phone number he was calling from and he told me 289-270-0738.  Does that sound like Microsoft?
I kept pressing him for more information like which computer was sending him the S.O.S and he rattled off a serial number really fast which wasn't any if my computers.  After I was done harassing him, I told him to never call back and take my number off of his list.

Said something about being from Microsoft and that my computer had been hacked and had alerted their technical department. I had been getting some funny stuff when I opened one of my emails so I bought in enough to give them access to my computer. BAD MISTAKE.  For a fee they would clean up my computer. I finally smelled a rat and got off the phone. Shut my computer down and took it in to be checked by a professional. Changed my passwords and alerted credit card companies. Feel like an idiot because I know better than to let a stranger have access to my information.

just got this call this morning at 7:45 and she kept calling back even after I repeatedly hung up on her.  Jamy was her name and very hard to understand but said same thing that my computer was downloading bad things that needed to be fixed as Norton would not catch coming in from Windows Operating System.  I told her to give me her # and I would call her back.  Are we really this stupid ??

Got the same call this AM at 630AM Eastern. Same story. They have been calling for weeks cuz my Mom keeps hanging up. When my Nephew answered today and sad we'd call them back which he did to tell them to stop calling and the authorities have been ontacted they hung up. Would you believe they called back 15 minutes later.

A woman with an Indian accent called me this morning at 6:30 AM and told me that my PC was infected with a virus.  I stopped her and asked her for her name and phone number.  Her name was Aliver, working for We Care Your PC.  I told her I'd hang up and call her back, and of course, didn't.

My wife got a call from this number as well.  Heavy accented man said his name was Ian Rogers.  Same story, "the computer registered to you is sending messages and he needs to help "walk her through" fixing the issue"  All of this is total BS.  Beware!!!

I got the same type of call. The individual had a heavy accent and said his company was located in India and that for 25 days my computer had been sending them messages. The caller ID said Milton, Ohio. He wanted me to go online and he would walk me through the process of fixing this. I asked for the name of his company and he mumbled something like "We Care Your PC" and that they were part of the Microsoft Windows team. I told him I would check with authorities.  He said his name was Sen or Song or something like that. Obviously a scam to install malware.

My mother this morning at 5 a.m. got another call from 2892700738, a man saying he was Steve, and that he had to connect to her computer as she has errors and problems that needed fixing.  She told them (this time) its 5 in the morning and I was asleep, she wrote down the phone number on the call display and went back to bed. I told her to write down the number of the technician she said has fixed her computer last time so I could talk with him.  (even the last time was a scam).  When I was visiting end Jan, I found the viewer software that came up on startup when connected to the net something mein and an account number, I got rid of it, as it looked very suspicious, when I left she apparently had other phone calls asking her for access  to her computer and she thought they were fixing it, as I had called her after I had left and she said, oh I can't use my computer for a hour or so, the technician is attached to and is fixing it (I thought it was a legit thing), but it wasn't then either.  So I looked up the phone number on the net only to find that this is a common scam going around, so I told my mother to not turn on the modem at all until I get a proper computer tech to clean her pc as I live far and record numbers and do no listen to anyone saying they want to fix your computer. Luckily my mother does no banking nor credit card purchases from her computer, she if fairly computer illiterate.  What else should I do to get these people banned from calling?

Below is a copy n paste from another forum explaining the scam:-

I get these phone calls about one a week. Last time, I was ready for them: I had a machine set up with a clean XP installation, so I played dumb to see what they would do.

They pose as "Windows Support Centre", or suchlike, and say that they've been receiving reports from your computer that there's a problem. You'll probably be asked how old the machine is - however old it is, seemingly, you'll be told that the warranty on your Windows software has expired, or that you should have taken one out when you bought it. Then, you'll be talked though opening something called the Event Viewer, and shown a screen that contains a number of warnings and errors. They will tell you that this is serious, even to the extent that it's causing problems that might force your ISP to cut your connection and/or inform the police.

Let's stop here and make two points:

1. There may well be something called a "Windows warranty". However, I have been a Microsoft Partner for nearly a decade, and I've never heard of such a thing. I think we can assume that if such a thing existed, Microsoft would be sending me lots of information on how I can make money selling it. They haven't, because there isn't.

2. I've never seen an Event Viewer that didn't have warnings and errors, and I've been a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer since 1999. Its function is to keep a record of everything that happens to the operating system so that people like me can find out what's happening if something has gone wrong. Most of the time, though, there's nothing to be alarmed about - in my case, most of the warnings were due to a printer not being found on the network because I'd switched it off.

OK, so the next stage is that you get passed to the "Technical Department". This is where it got interesting: I was told that a six digit support number was being generated so that my problem could be resolved, and I was directed to a website called logmein123, where I could enter this number. Now, this is a common tool used by people like me to fix machines over the network - clients call me with a problem, I can connect to the machine and show them what to do without having to leave my office. In this case, they were going to "fix" my machine. So I let them in. At this point, we will pause for a warning:

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME ON YOUR MACHINE. I WAS GIVING THIS GUY COMPLETE ACCESS TO MY COMPUTER. HE COULD DO ANYTHING HE LIKED, TRANSFER FILES TO INSPECT AT LEISURE, ETC. I WAS USING A MACHINE WITH NOTHING ON IT BUT THE OPERATING SYSTEM. REPEAT: DO NOT LET ANYONE YOU DO NOT KNOW AND TRUST ONTO YOUR SYSTEM IN THIS WAY.

This was from another phone # that requested the same error repair from an Indian voiced person.
The first thing was that as soon as he connected, I could see the IP address he was connecting from, and I was able to trace this back to a company name, and trace the company back to its offices in Mumbai. While I was doing this (on another machine), I was watching a rather nasty piece of software being uploaded to my machine and installed. A bit of fiddling around, and I was asked to try running a few programs. Lo and behold, they all crashed with frightening looking error messages - remember, this was a machine that was working perfectly a few minutes before. This was explained as a consequence of the problems that I was having before, and that the diagnostic program they were running was now blocking programs that could get me into trouble.

This was the point at which I was asked for money - they started at £100 to fix the problem I already had, with an additional £80 for a simple one year warranty to protect me in the future, or if I preferred, I could give them £299 for an all-in package including fix, anti-virus software and a five year warranty. Visa and Mastercard accepted. If I didn't want to go ahead, then I wouldn't be able to do anything with it until it was fixed.

At this point I let him know what I was doing, complete with telling him the name and address of the company he was working for. I expected him to hang up on me, but he decided to argue with me, at one point telling me that I wasn't an MCSE and I didn't know what I was talking about. In the end, I just told him that if he had been in this country, he could expect to be arrested, and hung up on him.

So, in summary, I wasted my time in this way so you don't have to. If these pirates call you, don't say a word. Just put the phone down.

This was a scam to repair error messages in my computer. This is the second call from them in 2 months. Do not let them take control of your computer.

Checking to see who and what this number is in relationship with.  I received a call at 6:20am in the morning on February 3, 2014 and they stated that my computer has been sending them message of errors and they need to get access to my computer so they can fix the errors.   They ask me to download some kind of software so they can gain access once I downloaded the software my computer gave me a message with and ID# and Code.  They lady name was Mary from India she said!  Mary ask me to give her that information and I said NO absolutely not.   When I research this number that she gave me it is connect to (Canada Ontario Brampton, Mississauga, Vaughan).

On my way to work I was telling one of my neighbors that I got this call and she said she got the same call this morning so I believe that this is a scam so if someone calls you please  don?t give them access to your computer.

Thanks