my phone said 1.530.619.3038  CA .  Said he was with Windows Tech support and I was infected  with something and they needed to check my IP address so to connect to the net.  First off I said I need to call them back and got 8882181777#7001 As all ways  I check out the number and yep scam.

I just got a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft advising me that a malicious program was on my computer trying to gain access to my information.

This person could not validate any of my information registered to my computer or anything else, and the phone number he provided me to call and speak to a supervisor is fake as well.

The turkeys have updated a bit to attempt to confuse the situation a bit more. Now you get a call from a person that says he is a Microsoft Tech  and goes through the usual spiel about your computer registering viruses etc. and for you to call back the 1-888-218-1777 number and ask for John Henderson, Tech No. 1006. They then attempt to have you give them your Credit Card info for billing purposes so they can check you computer and correct the problems.  Lots of push about the 3 year contract.  If these dudes weren't so stupid it would be amusing, they don't know Mac OS from Windows or, the differences in Windows versions.
The number they call from now comes up on ID as all zeros but, the call is from a Magic Phone  Hope the big boys are watching out there and start cracking down.

I looked up window 7 support and found this number 888-218-1777. I called and told them my issue. They told me my computer was being utilized in 8 countries. They asked what kind of computer I had then gave me an 800 number to call Sony support. The number was not a valed number so I became suspicious and started checking and found this forum. I hope I did not give them enough information and I will suffer for it somehow.

STAY AWAY FROM THEM......JUST HANG UP. DONT GIVE THEM ANY INFO. The same thing happened to me. Called what I thought was AOL Mail support. It was actually Aol (notice the lower case o and l) and i was dumb enough to fall for it. I talked to a guy named Manish at extension 1014, and he was the FASTEST talker I have EVER come across. He had a silver tongue. All the time I kept thinking that something just wasn't right, but he would always have an answer. He was sooo slick. He had me log into Login123.com. The website they use is out of the country and is called Liz Infotech PVT Ltd.  I even gave him my credit card number and had to reverse the charges about a week later when I called back and talked to someone who said the same thing that Manish had said....."that my account was compromised and that my IP address was stolen and that hackers were getting into my bank accounts...etc". The guy said that I needed to purchase a contract and software packages for $399.  I said that I had just purchased a three year service contract for $399  that included several security packages that they uploaded when I gave them control of my computer. I told him that purchased a contract a week before and that this was incorrect. Finally I called a friend and he said to not listen to the guy and get off fast.  I did and since then I looked into my computers preferences and found that the firewall had been turned off and only God knows what else they did. I called the real AOL and told them that number and they said that was not a phone number that they gave out and they NEVER farm out their tech support. I shut it down and turned off the airport. Thankfully I have a five year warranty on my computer and I am taking it in and hoping that they can undo what these scammers did. They also gave me a new number so if you see 855.315.1448 stay away from that too. They seem SOOO nice and respectful and bright but they are the biggest losers and scammers. I don't know how they sleep at night.

My friend got a virus on his computer.  It showed up mainly when trying to open his AOL email Inbox.  That would cause his computer to slow down to a crawl.  I went to his place to help and decided to call AOL tech support to see if they had a solution for that symptom.  I dialed 888 218-1777 and reached "AOL Tech Support".  They went through a lot of diagnostics using remote control software (Login123.com) and pointed out several invalid connections as well as several DL32 virus files and indicated that the computer was being controlled by people from other countries.  Then the person I was speaking to indicated that AOL would fix the problem if my friend subscribed to a tech support contract.  Even though I had reached the number by calling the AOL search number provided by a Google search, I was cautious and decided to do a reverse Google search on my smartphone rather than on the infected computer.  I reached this site and saw that the operation was a scam and had been associated with Yahoo tech support also.  I told the person I would call back to complete the virus removal but called AOL instead, at the number provided on my smartphone.  I reported the incident to AOL and signed up for a contract with them.  These people at 888-218-1777 are a scam.  Report them but don't deal with them.  Thanks to this site I avoided giving them credit card information that would have allowed them to bill him hundreds of dollars, not to mention charge other things.  Hope this helps someone.  By the way, when I went back to the computer the number had changed.  I don't know if it just provided an updated number to the scam organization.

they are not hotmail techs, its a scam just hang up. dont do anything they tell you to do

they say they are hotmail tech support but they are not
they want you to load a web page that will install key logger