201-155-2012

To everyone who gets calls from these numbers - they are a complete and total scam.  Windows would never call you personnally.  I would be worried they want to get all of your personal info off of your computer even more than what they want to charge you.  yes, all windows event viewer and other logs will contain harmless errors.  They use this to gain favor and trust with you.  Just tell them you are calling enforcement on them and report them!  This is one of a few different numbers they call from.  They ARE A SCAM!!!!

This number called twice today and left no message.  I am on the Do Not Call list

I am getting phone calls frm this number and they will not leave a message, This is some knd of scam,

I just recieved a call from 2011552012, about 5 sec of silence then the number disconnected. Tried ringing the number  and an automated voice from Telstra said the number didnt exsist. Also recieded a call from 08 62252088, when I back tracked the number (0044 793739 7822) I got a message saying " The person at extension 0044 xxxxxxx is unavailable please leave a message.

Received a call from an Indian man this evening claiming to be calling from Sydney, but my caller I.D showed an overseas number, not interstate. Tried to tell me that my computer wasn't working properly, and that he was a rep from Windows who could help. He wouldn't give me his real name, the name of the company he worked for or any contact information unless I turned my computer on. After a lengthy debate about his intentions and authenticity, I politely told him to GET F**KED. With any luck they won't call back.

called, hung up once they heard me speak

Indian speaking person saying my windows operating systems was being compromised...or something like that. Told him I didn't know anything about it and hung up!!!! called from 201-155-2012

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.

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.

Received call from this idiot - Indian accent - told him he was a scam and I was going to report him -  caller ID showed "New Jersey"

they will call back - I've had the same conversation with them more than once and to make it better I can't block the call because my caller id says it is not a valid number - scamers are getting smarter.

We just had a call from this number which appeared on our phone after the word OVERSEAS - it's one of the many we get wanting us to sign up to Google search engine promotions. The fellow had quite an accent but when I said we were sick of getting these calls and requested that we be removed from their lists AGAIN he said "not a problem" in a very broad Aussie accent.

caller (thick indian accent) claimed there was a problem with my computer. Said it had dangerous virus and what not. I knew immediatly it was a scam and argued with him for a few min and finally told him not to call my house again and hung up.

caller (thick indian accent) claimed there was a problem with my computer. Said it had dangerous virus and what not. I knew immediatly it was a scam and argued with him for a few min and finally told him not to call my house again and hung up.

Missed the call, but it went to the answering machine where a man with an Indian accent called me by name and asked if I could hear him ... he then hung up. Will not be answering this call ever!

I got a call from someone who had a thick Indian accent telling me there are serious warning errors on my computer.  I yelled at him to not call me anymore and yelled some more, so it made him hang up on me.  I hope he crapped his pants out of fear.

Caller ID said New Jersey - man with accent and lots of noise in background calling about "windows".  Told him never to call again or I'd report him.

Just rec'd a call from this #.  Said hello twice and was disconnected.

Caller with a strong middle eastern accent and very poor english stated that he was calling from the computer maintenance center.  He said my computer was infected with a virus that was calling the computer maintenance center phone number. He said I would need to give him remote access to my computer so he could remove the virus. I told him no and hung up on him. Prior to this there were eight hang up calls from this number over the past two weeks.

I have been getting this "OVERSEAS" thing for several years now, no one talks just silence then cut off. I get it several times a month.  So what I have done is put a fax machine on the line and when caller id comes up with "Overseas" we do not answer.  Just let the fax take it.  Seems to slow them down for a while but eventually happens again. I must say that I up to now never thought to type the phone number into the net and I must admit how wide spread these people are doing this and how many people are affected by it.

DO NOT DO THIS THIS IS A SCAM.  tHIS NUMBER CALLED ME A LEAST FOUR TIMES THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT I HUNG UP TWICE AND HE CALLED ME BACK ASKED WHY I HUNG UP ON HIM AND I SAID I DID NOT CALL YOU ABOUT MY WINDOWS ON MY COMPUTER GOING BAD CAUSE I HAVE A DEAL WITH MY PHONE COMPANY SO I HAD CHECKED WITH THEM AND FOUND OUT THAT THEIR WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY WINDOWS THEN I CALLED MY PHONE COMPANY AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS WAS A SCAM SO PLEASE DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH HACKING ALL YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE DON'T GIVE HIM ANY THING HANG UP AND CALL YOUR PHONE COMPANY AND HELP PUT HIM DOWN FOR SCAMMING NOT RIGHT.  SHE TOLD ME TO GO ON HERE AND TELL YOU EVERYTHING AND SO I AM. THIS PERSON IS GOT TO BE STOPPED.  HE TOLD ME HE WAS FOR MY WINDOWS BUT IT WAS NOT TRUE.