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Got the same thing today. A computer voice said 'Goodbye'.

I received a call today twice from the above number, the first time I didn't answer as I can see the number on my display and thought it would be advertising or someone trying to sell me something,out of curiocity I answered the second time and got a chap in a call centre in India I think.

He advised me they were Microsoft certified engineers and they have identified a problem in my locality and if I didn't follow there instructions my computer would crash in 2-3 days and I would lose all my data !

I suspected this to be some sort of con, but for a bit of fun I led this guy on and gave a few gasps of suprise when he told me what was going to happen, he then asked me to go to my computer so there Microsoft Certified Engineer could run through a few things with me at which point I said I wasen't interested and hung up !

Beware ! This is some sort of Con I reckon thats why I went on line to see if this very unusual 09999 number was somehow chargeable back to me and I found this answer board, I have now blocked this caller on my phone as I suggest you do or just hang up on them, not sure what they wanted to do on my computer but you never know what they can do once you start typing instructions in.

Got the same telephone call today but as I am a tecnophobe I thought I ha better pay attention.  Got really concerned when they told me to input a 6 digit number to connect me to the technician so made my excuses and hung up.  They are calling me back in half an hour.   Thanks for warning me.  Looked at some other comments on various sites and they say that they want card details to take payments for updating your warranty etc and if you actually enter the code,  their technician then takes control of your computer and resets all your settings causing chaos.   Thanks again.

I got a call from this number the other day. I found it hard to understand them as they were from India but a woman came on the line first and asked me if my Windows 7 was running slower than normal and said that malware had been downloaded onto my computer. She then handed me over to a guy who asked me if I understood what this call was about. I said 'no, not really' so he repeated what the woman had siad. I told him my computer was fine and that I had just had a health check done with PCWorld (which I had done thankfully) and that everything was fine. He said 'ok' and then hung up. I wish I had found out more but I got the feeling this was some kind of scam/con

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I've been getting calls from this number twice a day for a few days now. No one answers on the occasions I pick up. How can I block it?

this number calls me everyday for the past three weeks
sometimes more than once
same scenario
indian voice 'hello im *whatever* and we have detected a problem with your laptop

if you ask which company he represents so you can report them he will just hang up

but they will ring tomorrow and the next day amd the next day....

apparently its a scam for you to buy software from them that you dont need and which could potentially make your computer liable to serious issues regarding passwords and banking fraud

the scam works by getting you to log into a site and download a program that allegedly allows the 'engineer' on the phone to check for the problem, this downloaded program simply makes the screen of your computer look like files and programs are being cleaned of virus' and the like, once this sharade has finished you then 'buy' the software to stop it happening again(no idea at what price)
this new program then allows the hacker to access your files and passwords whenever they want
(the above was found through google)
hope its of some use

I keep getting missed calls from this number, if I have a PC problem I will call THE. Stop cold calling me!

I had 20 calls from this number in 2 days they never left a message , we are not at home so I was checking remotely and had to get my son to go clear my answering machine down because it was full. Total nuisances hope they rot in hell

i had the same issue today..had a caller on the phone claiming he was a tecnhician from windows!...my mum has no ideas and passed them to me ( in the end i got stuck for 45 mins) they said that i have had some malicious malware on my laptop and i needed to sort it out....the women couldnt understand me as i was playing dumb and she passed me to some over supervisor! after 20 mins of me saying i kno the laptop has issues i have had it nearly 5 yrs, he got me to put a 6 didgit code in so a technician could have a look at my laptop! he looked around and showed me randdom [***] about my laptop certicates to security and all this bull! then made me get a pen and paper! for me to come back to it being shutdown and him hang up! i think this is a major con, all sound indian from some indian call centre! with names that are clearly english! and not theres! major scam guys ignore all calls, they are persistant buggers!

Why are these buggers allowed to infiltrate our privacy and waste our precious time. Although only about 2% of the affected people  write on these forums, All the evidence is here in black and white, on this and other similar sites.  Yet toothless Ofcom and numerous government appointed "watchdog" agencies are NOT doing anything about it, they just pass regulations after regulation which have no PRACTICAL bite . I dont condone them but I think News of the World phone hackers would be able to track down and expose these buggers in no time at all

I got one today. No one spoke.

I had one of these calls a few days ago but thankfully I had heard from a friend who is a wizz IT guy about it so once they introduced themselves I told them very 'politely' to 'Fluff' off and hung up.  Not heard from them since.

Whatever you do do NOT follow their instructions.

This number has been calling most days for 3 months now
I looked it up on this site and until today ignored the
Call
However today I answered, same convo, Microsoft engineer
problem with my pc and if I could do a few checks he would
Help me fix it, otherwise my pc would crash and I
Would lose all data in a few days time,
My reply was if that's the case and seeing as you ring most days
Since Xmas wouldn't it have crashed by now?
'Nigel' my new Indian friend had no answer so I asked
Him if he knew I had a problem he obviously knew who my
Internet provider was how I access the tintenet and my ip
Address, because without that information he couldn't
Identify my account, his answer, I don't have that info to hand ATM
I replied is that because your are nothing to do with microsoft and
You are in fact just a scamming company wanting me to buy
Non existing software to cure a non existing fault
He put the phone down
My advice is its a scam so don't fall for it and certainly don't buy anything
From them
There should be a way of stopping this by now, or is that because by get a cut
From allowing it to continue?!?

This is getting out of hand! I see all the comments above and have the same story as everyone else. Annoyingly, I am registered with TPS so could make a complaint against them and get them fined £5k but they never let you know the name of the company. I asked one guy "Edward", the name 3 times and he said something so undecipherable, there was no way anyone would be able to understand it.
Without the company name, I cannot make an official complaint. Surely this renders the CTPS organisation moot????? What is the point of having them as a back up if they cannot help you when you have the number that called and the time and date???? Oh well.... could we see if anyone can actually get a name out of them??

Had a call today by the time I answered they hung up  just checked this number out as it os very unsual.discovered many others have received calls from this number.

Same as above. Had a call, when picked up there was no one there.

This number keeps phoning, but we keep missing it, but today my father answered it, he knows very little about the computer so he passed the phone onto me, like the others he said that he was from windows and there was a problem with my computer, when I said there wasn't he said there will be, so I said that we haven't reported any problems regarding the computer to anybody, so who is he and what is the problem, he sounded indian (so I couldn't understand a lot of what he was saying), but he was telling me to switch the computer on so their engineer could fix it, so I repeated 'what is the problem and who is he', he once again couldn't tell me what the problem was and just kept saying that he was from windows / mocrosoft. I told him that I didn't have time to do all of that as we were about to go and attend a funeral, but he kept on saying where is the computer and to switch it on, but I told him quite strongly that we didn't have time as we had to leave to attend a family funeral, so I told him that I wanted his details, he said he'll call back, but I told him no! I wanted his details to check him out and find out who he is, he said "yes I'll give you my details", then went quiet for a few seconds and then he ended the call, he put the phone down on me. I think it's rare to have a call centre hang up on you?

If this was 'real' they would be happy to let you check them out, so they are obviously cons.

Got several calls today from this number, they seem to switch between different presentation numbers on VOIP to avoid the blocking systems as yesterday they were using 01234765093 which has called daily for the last few weeks. This one`s now blocked as well. I don`t think TPS can do much as they could originate anywhere in the world. About time the the phone companies put spam filters on their networks.

I am sick of this number calling. We have moved house, changed number, changed supplier and they have started ringing again asking for the same person we have never heard of. Please can anyone do something about it as I am starting to get very annoyed.