00501

I have had a call about being reimbursed money from the bank for charges I was unaware of ???, they have advised me to buy a UKASH Voucher from my local Spar shop totalling £440 before I receive my £4,400 from the bank then a"Solicitor from The High Court" will come to my home address to see I have bought the voucher (which will be the 10% tax I will owe the government) and reimburse me the money via my bank account ???? I strongly suggest that this goes out on the News via TV & Radio ASAP !!!

Fed up with calls from this number no one ever speaks they just hang, 00501 it must be a scam

3 calls in 2 minutes at 1109am - as I was in work I didnt have my phone on me.....would love to know what was soooooooo important!

Got a call from 00501 today - autodialling caller - could not understand what they were selling - told them to take my number off their calling list or database and this stupid cow said "We can do that for you for 90 pounds" yeah right - told her to f... off - there is no finer way to deal with them than a good earthy bit of anglo saxon - its the internationaly recognised word of choice for dyspeptics everywhere...

Received a call at 12.20pm from this number ... i answered, call took a couple of seconds to connect then caller asked "Can I speak to Mrs Thompson?"I repied "Speaking, who's calling please?" Line went dead. Anyone know who this is yet please?

What a pain in the [***] this number is, keep having to leave what I'm doing to answer their silent hang ups.

I have been called from this number twice once at 2am and once today at 10 am.
On each occasion there were 2 rings and then it stopped.

Just had a call from this number. P.C. Health check! !

To those who have had a human voice on the end of the phone you are the lucky ones because all I get is a put down.I sooooooo want to give whoever it is that calls at very strange times of the day, a piec of my mind but sadly I never get a chance. When I get them it can be a spate of them over a period of days then nothing for months.Is anyone further along as to knowing who this is?

My partner just got call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft, he asked her to go to our computer and put some codes in, she told him we didn't have a computer to which he replied "Oh F**k" and put the phone down. When she did a call back to find out the number it came up as this 00501.

I received a call from this number and the caller put the phone down immediately I answered.

Numerous calls that hang up.  Believe it to be an automated call system based overseas that dials tel no's and if it gets an answer, it logs the number for a call centre to call back at a later stage.

Strangely enough, PPI calls have followed from people with Indian accents.

i have recieved a number of calls from 00501,is  who is this and can this number be barred.

Keep getting all sorts of calls from "heavily accented" callers with unknown numbers.  So bad that I got a call-blocking device.  My provider is Talk Talk - their calls are blocked too !

Just had a call from 00501, dead silence when I answered. so tired of all these calls - we are signed up to telephone preference, yet the number of PPI calls and other  that we have been having over the last two months.

Have had several calls from this lot  who  reckon to be Microsoft / Windows support and "there is a problem with your computer  not updating "   unfortunately  Microsoft  dont operate out of a call center in the boondocks of Asia.

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.

They keep ringing but I do not answer (good thing caller I D)

Have received 3 calls from this no. today. First two silent, third one foreign sounding girl said " I am calling you from Windows about your conputer" then the line went dead.

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These t***ers phoned at 1.56 in the morning last month............can you believe it........reported it to the police and to the anti-fraud people as I had experience of them a while ago under a different number, please beware of WINDOWS SERVICE CENTRE!! Grrrrrrrhhhhhhh!!!