00253820308

Thank you very much for posting this scam.  My mother has just received a call from this number.  Luckily my mother told the lady to call her back as she couldn't hear her.  My mother does not have a computer.  We live in Ireland.

Thanks again John.

Also received a call from this no. today 19/5/11. I'm based in Ireland and they also spun this line about a Microsoft link.

I got exactly the same call from this number (I'm also in Ireland). They claimed to be from microsoft saying I was downloading material that was causing a virus. I could not understand what the lady was talking about and she passed me onto her 'superviser'. When I said i thought this all sounded like a scam he got very ratty saying 'How dare you accuse me of being a scam' over and over. I asked him to tell me what I needed to do, but as I pretended to follow his instructions I just googled the number and found this site. Once my suspicions were confirmed, I just hung up.

I got a missed call from this number on Friday 20 May 2011. My Mother also got a missed call from the same No on the same day. She also happened to recieve some calls last month from this No, telling her she had a virus on her PC. She told them to go away and hung up but they called back a number of times. I gave her a loud whistle to blow down the line the next time they called. That seemed to really piss them off.

hi, I had this call and I actually did everything they told me to do.  Now I'm really worried as does this meen they have access to my computer. I dont know what to do. can you help

i got this number, phoning me yesterday, and they were on the phone for 25mins, they had full access to my computer, can they access everything on my pc??? and before they completed the call they asked me to sign up for 40 yos, which i thankfully didnt and i said to hime that i wasnt sign up to anything and he hung up, so that was the end of him, how do they get my landline number when its ex directory and they had my correct security code for my pc, which i fell for.

keep getting calls fom 00253820308 & 00401 &00901 numbers, I went along with it for 20mins in the end they wanted me to pay €60 for some kind of security plan i told them that i didn't have any money they said ill put my manager on & believe it or not he said 'give me your email address & ill give you the money', so i said back 'you're going to give me €60', at this point I hung up,what a crock!!

Just received a call from 'Windows Service Centre' about my computer being in great harm as i have a load of error messages on it - very rude man on the phone - kept telling me he has sent messages to our computer about the virus treat but i kept telling him we received no messages - extremely rude - I led him on for a few minutes pretending to be typing in something on the computer but i was just taking down notes instead - then when he wanted me to click on something i told him i wasn't clicking anything until my husband came home as he is a computer engineer and he would contact them about the error messages and then guess what -the phone went dead - the rude man hung up on me!

Same number 0025320308

I had a call from someone with an India accent. They said they were from Microsoft and that they wanted to speak with the person who has the computer at my number. They said they at Microsoft for Windows, were receiving error reports for this computer and that it had several viruses. Trojan etc, etc. I said that I would have my local computer "guru" check it out for me. They said that if I did that, that Microsoft would not be responsible for any "crashing" of the computer. I said no thanks and they hung up. SCAM!

This is the second time they have called now, first time it was a woman that was quite rude saying we have been downloading illegal material on our computer....load of crap! The second phonecall was from the same number this morning and i didnt get to answer it in time as a computer voice just said "Goodbye". I hope they get done for this..urgghhh!

We're irish, my mother in law was called yesterday during the day to say she had a virus on her pc, asked was she the sole user of pc which she answered yes, then he told her to enter instructions on her pc, at which she said my son does my computer stuff for me, so ull have to wait till he comes to visits, caller got very agitated and raised his voice saying you told me you were the sole user!!! She just hung up! with most households now having laptops or pcs, some poor buggars are going to get caught out, its a disgrace!!!!

I got a call from this number today so I had a long conversation with the gentleman on the other end of the line whilst pretending to be following his instructions. After about 15 minutes I suddenly remembered that I don't have a computer and he was wasting his time.

Got a call from this number about 10 mins ago and didn't answer it, which i'm glad now i didn't from reading what you all have said. But i will be ready for them next time. I'm from ireland.

Thanks everyone for your posts relating to the number 00253820308, this has been really helpful as I keep missing calls from this number and everytime I phone it back an automated service tells me this number is currently unavailable...they have been calling over a week now, such a nuisance!!!

got a call saying i had computer viruses and he and his techinical dept would clear it and i should follow his instructions  Played the deaf ear thing , strung him along for a while and then hung up...

I too, got a call like these others. Asian lady said " Goodbye" when I answered. So sick of these blasted calls.............................ggrrrrrr

I keep getting calls from this number, and when I answer, no one speaks, and then a computer voice message says 'goodbye'.

Well they tried the "Your computer has been sending error messages to us" to me too, however being in IT for over 15 years and understanding my machines very well i know this was all fake.

Looks like the number comes from Djibouti 00 (253) 820308 (probably in a lawless area)
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/djibouti.htm

Im resident in Holland, if they call me again, i think i will be the one doing the phishing :)

Don't give them any info ... (including your name) .. and all should be ok

I just got a call from this number. Also from a man with an india accent. He said something about being from eci solutions or something like that. There was no way I was going to give him control of my computer so I told him to call back when my husband was home. :) We are located in Holland so the UK and Ireland are not the only ones to receive these calls. If they call back I will try to find out what they call themselves and where they are located.

If you get any more calls, try to get as much info as possible, like domains names etc
It may help us to track back to them somehow.

:D