02111234520

had a call this evening from the "microsoft engineer" who told me he could sort my problems. I followed his instructions for 7 minutes before telling him my screen had frozen. He told me to restart the computer which i obviously did ;) only to tell him the windows logo was the only thing visible and what had he done to my computer????
After about 5 seconds of umm's he then hung up.  Didnt get the chance to tell him my computer hadn't been switched on for the whole conversation but at least my 8 minutes of fun stopped someone else being hassled!!

I had this one twice.  If you have a CLI didplay you can spot it's a fraud because thete is no such area code as 021.

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 calling me even when I tell them I don't use a windows based Machine I get 4 to 5 calls a day.

Some of them even being rude and swearing at me. Telling me to Foff not good for a scamming company they need to be reported to ofcom. That's my next task.

keep getting calls from this no.02111234520 -no body answered as yet -but dont intend to ring back !

just had a phone call from this goon told him i know the problem its a graphic driver crash he offered to help and told me to turn on pc ahem obviously a scam because i build these machines dont be suckered in

i had this call at around half five today telling me i had a nasty virus on my computer, this is about the 5th or 6th call of this type, men and women have phoned me. i ask them what type of computer i got as if u know i got a virus u should know what type of computer i use, they can not tell me what one just the main one i use. i have the laptops in my home and none of them are even in my name so they just seem to get ur name from somewhere and just say mr or mrs on who answers the phone. i never give access to my computer as i know its all a scam. i told him that it was a scam and wanted access to my comp for them to steal my information and told him that i was hanging up as it was a scam.

Received a call from. 0211123550.
No one there to talk.

I've had a few of these calls and each time I aways say I've not got a computer, I repeat myself twice then they say ok sorry bye. That's it's, just deny you have one or just tell them to f**k off

I had this call this morning but didn't answer. 1471 gave me the number and on dialling it there was a long drawn out sound which I always thought was a 'number unattainable' noise.  I also had these people telling me about a month ago I had something wrong with my computer and that it was running so slowly it could pack up totally and I would lose everything on it.  When they started asking for £99.00  I told them that my son was coming for the weekend and he would sort it out.  They asked me what the hell my son had to do with my computer.  At this point I hung up.  They persisted in ringing back every 5 minutes but I did not pick up but checked 1471.  I have an answer machine and have told all friends and relations that I will not pick up unless I know who they are.  It works a treat, short message and then they say who they are and I pick up only to those I know.   Also had two calls from 02392 987556 - also unavailable on ringing back!!

I have had several calls from this number but most clear before I answer but last week I got one to answer and a man with an Indian accent told me my computer was faulty, I told him to copulate with himself although I did use another verb but he failed to understand and persisted with his nonsense so I put  down the phone.

Just had another call from these thieving chancers and told the chap to go away in no uncertain terms. About time someone got hold of these crooks, shame that our authorities can't or wont do anything about them.

These people called and scammed my dad a couple of years ago - they accessed his bank account online and took money out.   It took us ages to get the money sorted out.

Now I live in the house they keep calling me - and even though I tell them that I am registered with TPS and it is illegal for them to keep calling, I tell them I know they are scammers acting illegally, or I ask them to take me off their calling list they don't listen and keep calling back.

They are definitely from India and presumably are not covered by our laws.  They keep ringing - now I just ignore the number when it comes up on my caller diplay

Answered call from this number - after a few seconds of silence from the other end, the line went dead

This number called me today, an Indian man obviously reading from a script told me he was from the government and that they had a device that can save me money only electricity.  I told him I wasn't interested and not call again and put the phone down before he had a chance to say anything

They ring every day, but never speak, gets on your tits after a while.

I'd really love them to call me, I don't have a honeypot computer but I'd love just to string them along as long as possible.

Had a call from this number saying they could save me 10% on my energy bills saying it's for the "Go Green" project - to be honest got bored of listening so hung up and then checked number on here and see that the number has been used for the Microsoft scam that used to call me but I used to hang up straight away so must've changed tact?

Love it - I might try that next time!

Weird how everyone reports this number to be about pc support. Mine this morning was completely different. Indian sounding man saying he has reports that we pay our electricity on time and that he'd like to inform us about a new box initiated by the Government... At which point i hung up.