201-285-5200

i recived a call from a person saying he was calling for microsoft telling i was having trouble with my computer and they knew what was wrong and wanted to help get it fixed ..anway after showing me what was bad and  telling me i could get there program for 200.up to 400.dollersthen cutting to 69$ when i didnt go for that he said he could cut me off the internet forever dont tell them any thing.!!!!

I received a similar call.  When I asked for their number to call back they gave this number.  When I asked them if this was a Microsoft office number, they hung up on me.  Scam!

Received a call 8-30-12 from "Windows" telling me there was something wrong with my computer, it is going to crash.  I followed his instructions through a couple different screens until I came to a screen showing my computer ID.  I then got suspicious, said I had to go.  I did ask his name and number which is 201-285-5200.  He asked when I would be returning, I said about 7 o'clock which gave me enough time to contact my computer tech.  He told me not to do anything, it's a scam. Received a call at 7 o'clock from unknown name, unknown number.

This guy has called my house several times over the last few days.  I would not follow his instructions and asked for info on his company.  He gave me the 201 # and said they were based out of Bayonne, NJ.  It seemed like a scam from the beginning, I just hope he stops calling me.

This is big scam !! looks like some crooks got together and they are trying to get innocent people to get on their computers and help these guys some how to pay for the false services provided by saying that your PC has got virus or your PC is running slow etc. Please do not entertain such calls.

What happened .... My wife got a unknown call on 09/29 and literally the guy harassed her. These guys are mean. She was smart and she got the number and name of the person who called her. I was away when all this happened, but she called right away on my cell phone explaining what had happened. When I came back I called the number and asked for the guy Ron Wilson .. and he came on the line and started talking about ... my PC is infected and possibly my computer will crash if I did not do what he asked me to do. But instead .. I told him to not bother about it and he was Ok with putting the phone down. I am an Indian and I was able to easily recognize their accent and was able to hear some background talking in Indian Language - Hindi, hence I can tell the call was being answered by an Indian person.

October 25, 2012
I too had a call today with just like yours.  They told me that they had seen where my computer was showing errors and warnings in my windows system.  I was leary so I plugged him for all the info I could get from him he said his name was Ben Johnson from the New York Windows Center with the number of 201-285-5200.  He continued on insisting that I had a windows issue and wanted my windows activation Product I.D. Number and asked me to turn my computer on.  I said no, just tell me where I can find the issues, I will write them down and then I can see what is wrong.  He asked me again to turn on my computer, I told him I would call Microsoft to verify who he was and my system problems.  This is when I hung up.  I did call micosoft and they said that if he did not give me a case number and that if I did not have any windows issues popping up on my screen then more than likely the call was not from Microsoft.  I gave Microsoft all his information and they thanked me.   (Then I found this page) So, stay smart and do not fall for this scam.  If they steal your Product I.D. Number they could disable your computer then you are screwed!  They will more than likely sell your Product I.D. Number to someone else!  It's people like that that should be shot, without any questions!

I got the same call and was harassed into getting them on my computer, never again!

I keep getting these calls from 'Microsoft" Windows telling me my pc is going to crash-am I sitting in front of the compute? and then I said NO.  "He' Kevin Brown (had a thick Indian sounding accent) said would I go to my computer screen ? and I said NO-give me your number and I will call you back.  This 201-285-5200 number is the number "Kevin" gave me-and I too hear what sounded like a room full of people talking on phones.  I am not going to call 'Kevin" back now or ever-this is a scam-I am certain of it.  Have also received these calls on my cell phone-Tell them you don't have a computer and hang up!

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.