00253820308

Just got a call from them before lunch. Work in IT so knew immediately it was a scam. They asked me to look at the windows event log to see if there are any errors! Then told me my protection was out of date and I would have to pay €96 to renew!! Strung them along for about 15 mins until it got the the bit where they wanted me to put my CC details into a website - then basically lost it withe them.

I live in Ireland and i've been getting calls from this number for a few months now, its mainly UPC customers that gets it as far as i'm aware, the idiot with broken English on the other end tries to get you to download a remote desktop tool saying he is from Microsoft and is removing viruses from your pc but what he is doing is installing "banking bots" that go after all you internet banking and credit card details

Got two calls from this number Angel said she was a microsoft employee and needed to do something about my computer liscence Strung her along a bit and then asked her if she thought i was stupid enough to believe her She hung up.......

I get a call from this number every week....usually i just hang-up as am aware its a scam but today...played along for a few mins..then let the indian sounding guy have it..."I will f***ing fly over there to Kolkata in India and knee cap you if you ring this number again"
(According to The UK Guardian these calls come from a call Centre in Kolkata India)
I know this will make no difference and the calls will still keeping coming in but felt better after I gave him a piece of my mind....on a positive note its one way of venting [***]...anyone know a way of barring this number?

Hello,
I have just received a call from the above number claiming she was from microsoft as I had a bad virus and that my computer would crash in 10 minutes if I did not do as she said.  I told her to call me back in 10 mins and that I would turn my computer off.  This of course gave me time to call Microsoft who so happens to be closed on  a Saturday.  Checked the number and came across this site.

I am in Groningen by the way.  The phone keeps ringing.

A lady with a very heavy Indian accent asked me if I was the owner of this telephone number.
I told her I am not the owner, my provider owns it -I guess-.
She lost all interest and hung up.

Just been called by this number (Rotterdam area) I dind't regonized it immidiatly so I answered the call with my name. I think that's why she knows my name. She told me that she works for MS.
I woke up and told her that I'm very busy at the moment and disconnect.

Got a call today, we live in Holland. The men on the phone said he was from microsoft and he new my last name etc. then he told me there was a virus en hacked email on my computer en they are getting messages from my computer. He asked me to put my computer on when i refused he kept on pushing to put it on. Then i hang up the phone. Googled the telephonenumber and found this site.
Watch out!!

I've just received a call from this number. At first my wife picked up the phone. When she said she was my wife they hung up. Within 3 minutes they called back. Now I answered the phone. A lady with an asian accent asked about downloading, virussus etc. If I would turn on my computer. I knew microsoft would call from the Netherlands. I did not trust the call. So I told her I didn't have a computer. She hung up after talking to another person.

I've just got a call from this number. I didn't pick the phone up, but checked first the number on the internet because I didn't recognize the number..... Glad I did....

Unknown caller 00253820308 this morning 8.30 Dublin not answered no message left. Googled the number and found this forum! Hope this message helps.

scam call 10 minutes ago wanting to repair / remove viruses from / my Microsoft computer.
Djibouti-based internet call I think. (00253 .... )
had same scam attempt a couple of months ago from an Australian (Melbourne) number.
poor technical execution - apparently they've used the same telephone number to try and con money from people directly - maybe  they don't know this (and similar) websites exist ......

My mom got a call just now. She doesn't understand English (we're from the Netherlands) so she hung up. I saw the caller ID and immidiately thought about a scam. After googling the number I found lots of sites about those idiots.

Very annoying, to say the least. I hope no-one will actually believe what they're saying, who knows how bad they're going to mess up your PC...

Should those idiots dare to call again, I'll pick up the phone and tell them quite explicitly to stick it where the sun doesn't shine :P

Hardnekkig tiep.
   Therapie : meteen ophangen (de telefoon bedoel ik dus)

I just got a call from " Microsoft". He said he wanted to talk to me about my Windows computer. I asked him who he was. I said his name was Kevin  ......i couldnt understand the rest he was saying. I asked him why he tallked english. I live in the netherlands. I think he got annoyed with me cause he hung on me

That lady just called me as well. she was going on about how they were getting error messages from my computer. I told her I didn't think so and hung up, she tried calling me two more times.

Got a phonecall today the scary thing is they knew my full name.I am also from Holland.i had a guy who spoke in poorly english saying he was from microsoft.He tried to be polite but also tried to force me to turn on my comp.He told me he could see all details in my comp.i told him i don't trust him he said i could talk to the superviser named Linda.i said i don't trust her as well and that this was a very uncommen way to persue people if anything would be wrong with my comp.i reported it to the police and gave the number to them.i also found out it's a Somalian number on the net..bd careful people and tell everybody you know!!

Just had a call from an Indian woman claiming I had problem with malware on my computer and that she wanted to help me fix it. As I work in IT I knew she was talking rubbish and told her so. What amazed me was her tenacity, insisting that she knew I had a problem and could I turn my computer on. I went on to discuss the fact that I had antivirus/malware and I would be aware of any problem. Finally in an attempt to indicate she knew nothing, I insisted that she must know my ip address at the very least to prove her credibilty. She hung up.

They called us claiming they were from Microsoft and my PC had virusses, as soon as I told them that it doesn't sound legit and I would call the police, they hung up.

Just got a call from this number. They said they were from Micro Assist and had received error reports from our computer (Micro Assist is alegitimate US based company in Austin Texas). My wife was suspicious and made them call me. They said they were calling from the UK  - although the number is clearly not a UK number. They then said the number shows as if it was from the US - although 002 in not the US code - from California. They said their address in the Uk was 146 Banbury Road, Oxford. The person said his name was Albert Martin, although he clearly had an Asian accent. They said we had hacking software on the computer and that they wanted to help clear it up. My wife said the man had tried to get her to open a window in the computer and enter a code. She did not do this - and it made her more suspicious. This code would have given them remote access.