Here's official warning from Microsoft:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230431/microso ... phone_scam.html

How dare you try to fool people even here.

got a call from the same lady , with same accent . says her name is alice . she pretty much told me the same deal she told you . i am expecting a call back from her around 6 today i will be wary of her instructions . by the looks of it this is obviously a scam . she gave me an address and it turned out to be some industrial area in vancouver!!!! watch out people !!

LOL i work for the bank and I see these charges through so many ppls accounts , and what I do , dispute them , but i think this has got to be the stupidest thing in the world, I havent doubted ppls intelligence until I saw this happen to ppl,, got me thinking what kind of idiots ppl are these days, wooow...

I also got a call from Carrie stating that I had a malicious virus on my computer but my husband asked for his ID and why the caller ID didn't identify as Microsft. He gave us this number to call back and I looked it up and found out it is a scam from here.

I have since reported it to the RCMP at www.antifraudcentre.ca and have called a couple of the radio stations to warn people about the phone calls in the area so no one is scammed.

Next time they call they are going to get an earful! These call centre folks should be ashamed for working with such a company trying to defraud people. Not sure how many people have fallen for this. Quite sad if someone actually does.  Microsoft should be cracking down on these guys.

richard thomson calls to say I have problem with my microsoft windows program, shows up as error on company records, wants to lead me through to correct.... problem is I have a mac... then he hangs up

gives his address as 1035 fifth st vancouver bc unit 33

has called wife 3 times today, she says has no computer but still calls back

I received a call from a girl,name Alice Brown ,,she told me there is some problem in my computer,,
her ax cent was so weird  ,,she cant even speak english,,,she gave me this number to call back,,,
its a scam ,,,dont response on call....

i as well receive the same call ,,they told me they have received some error from my computer ,and than
they give me some command to type something,,i check those things and they take the control of my computer ,,they fix my computer ,,,i dont know weather they are good guys or bad,,because after that my computer is running quit fine....and i dont have any problem any more ..

received a call today from this number saying it was microsoft windows and I had malicious software on my computer.  Felt is was a scam.  Did not continue the call and then google the number and saw these posts.

I am Thankful my internet was down when they called, but they kept calling back and calling back. Finally I told them off and accused them of being a scam, and to never call my # again!!!!! now??? they call all night and all day and hang up if someone answers. I turned my ringers off last night so I could get some sleep. I called the RCMP and here is a number to call and report this kinds of stuff to:
1-888-495-8501  Fraud Line

This woman of what appearded to be of Pakistan decent called saying she was from Microsoft Windows and that there were receiving window errors from my computer.  I asked her what kind of computer I had, and she couldn`t tell me. She asked me to turn on my computer, and I asked why..she couldn`t answer me.  I asked again why I needed to turn on my computer for her to tell me about virus`s, trojan ect.  I had just watched on the news about the scamming that is going on from people saying they are from Microsoft, and trying to fix errors that they are receiving from home computers.  I told her that, and she cave me this number...I couldn`t understand what she said her name was...sounded like Raven..and gave me her personal extention (wss 2112).  I stopped her right n the spot. She didn`t get into my computer at all.

Wow ! Richard Thompson just called me as well. I told him I would call him back and he gave me this number. I then asked for a 1-800 number and he said that line was not working at the moment. Don't let them scam you !

I got a 2nd call from them tonight!  My son said to do a google on their phone number which brought me here.  Richard Thompson from windows service center was the person who called me tonight.  I told him I was busy and would call him in about 2 hours..... of course I won't but this is the 2nd time they called me!  I will report them now to the do not call list.

Don't you think that Microsoft would want to know about misrepresentation?  I think I will do that as well.

So sick of hearing about scams and hackers!  They should get what they deserve!

DO NOT TAKE A CHANCE!!  TAKE A STAND AND REPORT THEM!!

Kerry Young from windows service center , he called me last night at 9:30 and he told me' go internet explorer and type www.ammyy.com,download this software bcoz it is his own website ,and i did according to him and than he tryed to hack my personal details form my computer , so i know he is the onw the big hacker ,and if anyone are talkig to him plz hung the call , don't do such worng thing he is doing ,hacker hacker hacker hacker

i got a call from kerry young ( senior technician) wsc no is 12392 , he is big scamar ,plz don't fall in his voce bcoz he is the person , whon can any of info any time , he told me, go to RUN BOX  and type www. ammyy.com , i thought it is scam ,  and try to hack my credit card info ,

so i got the phone call today and proceeded to do everything they said and while i was on hold as i had given them some  bad paypal account  i decided to google the number and came up here after that i spent an hour on the phone with them laughing basically because i knew what they where doing ive never fallen for a scam yet and lots of people have tried i wonder how many people they believe are stupid  so there going to call me back tomorrow at which point i will tell them no one lives here by that name XD and maybe play with them a bit more

f you really are the service centre when i call back the line should not be so staticky that you cannot make out what is being said.  Yet when you called me the line was clear. when you answered the phone you should have identified it as a business instead of saying hello. I have never ever called a service centre and not been put on hold..... that should be a red flag immediately.



Thank you for reading this

Matt we haven,t did any thing wrong with your computer,we just tried to save your computer from the unwanted suff which came over the internet,we are not running any kind of scam here.

we are not running any kind of scam ,this is the service centre of windows computer .so please don,t
write anything like this .

Same thing with me, only he convinced me to go so far as to begin a Goto Assist meeting with a "microsoft engineer." The first thing he did was open paypal and tried to get my log in.  I closed everything down imediately and reported it to the police.

That apparently Microsoft guy also called me this afternoon advising me that Microsoft did receive error messages from my computer. I have to admit though ? that guy was quite skilled and made me believe for a few minutes that there is really something fishy with my computer the way he asked me to check my event-viewer where these error messages are listed.
I'm reasonably knowledgeable - but since I?ve never checked that area of my computer ? this was not so obvious for me.

After checking with our IT department it became very clear that the error messages listed in the event-viewer section of the automatic stored internet / IP address access areas are nothing to be concerned off

Since he actually left me a call back number because I was suspicious since I never had such a call before - so I googled that number and found the msg above posted.

This number is used as a call back for Microsoft.  WATCH OUT!  It's a scam.  They are trying to tell you that you have a virus on your windows computer and to follow their instructions to remove it.  They are actually putting on software for identity theft and banking passwords.