02538020308

called at 2230. not impressed, woke my 3 young children! They just hung up.

just had a couple of calls from this number, i challenged them to explain what pc they were talking about, because i have more than one, i got bored with her continual trotting out of the same statement, so i hung up!

i then googled the number, and it has brought me to this page, with very similar stories..

Called 12.30 03/11/12 this is 3rd time this week. this time pretended to be doing everything that they asked. kept saying "is that better" and they would go through it all again. After 10 minutes (had lot of time on my hands this morning) told them I was using Linux and would that make a difference. Strangely they hung up

Asian man saying he was from microsoft & yellow & red warnings had been received from my computer. Told him I was on a telephone preference service & my husband is a I T Technician so what he was telling me was crap!

stupid asian bloke who was really hard to understand called trying to say his name was adam (my [***]) trying to tell me my computer has a virus and told me to turn on my computer so told him to f off, told him i will report this number to the police if he does not end the call and delete my number

Just a call similar to those others have experienced.On answering hello,silence and then goodbye.Five minutes later had a call from an  Asian sounding man asking if I was the home owner.I told him I was the cleaner at which point he rang off.The number he called from was untraceable.

02538220308 called me five times yesterday and again this morning.  I am sick of it!!!!!!

Received a call today from 'Jack' telling me about some sort of problem with my PC. I kept him on the line but without doing anything. He asked me to press various keys including run a cmd file.  Eventually told his 'supervisor' that I wasn't a fool and hung up.

Using ring back got the number 02538 020308.

The caller used the name that my BT account is in not myself. Therefore they are using telephone directories.

Just had a call from this number and after I answered it went silent for a few seconds then hung up. If they call back I will wind them up as I am IT.

newcastle area same as above saying i have viruses on my computer, when trying to ring this number telephone message says this number does not exist

Love these scammers trying to control my PC, told them nothing and kept them going for over 20mins talking absolute rubbish the thing is who's the scammer now. What fun these Indian  scams give, can't wait for the next one.

well its friday morning and its 11.30 am, just had my 5th call from this number and all been hang ups.just glad that i googled the number to see who it was and found all these comments

Received a call at 5.50am.  Dashed to phone thinking it must be an emergency, set alarm off waking the street on a Saturday morning.

Just received a call from an Asian woman advising me my computer was transmitting malicious files onto her company server. She asked me to turn on my PC which I just happened to be sitting at anyway. I said I had and she asked what I could see. I told her I could see my desktop to which sh then said she was going to get her boss to speak to me. She must have thought she was onto a winner. Her boss then came on the line and I asked him what the mac address of my PC was. He said he wasn't going to tell me. I asked him for my IP address and again he said he wasn't going to tell me. I asked him if he knew my name and he said he did but again wasn't going to tell me. Starting to get a bit fed up now I told him if I was causing any crime to send the old bill round my gaffe to arrest me. Either that or he could have a coke and a smile then shut f*** up.

Below is a copy and 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.
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receieved call from this number, treid to call back, message was this number does not exist ?

two calls last night another three by 9-30 this morning .when picking the phone up I get silence or goodbye.It doesn't say much if the telephone companies in this country if they can't trace or block these calls.
      The idiots making these calls are targeting the north east.

Phone rang - on answering heard brief noise of conversation and then call was terminated by the caller

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Had approximately 15 calls today from this number 02538020308, silent then an automated 'goodbye'
Ive reported them and im going to bar tis number been on to sky to arrange it!!! Can they charge you back for answering, I think I need to ask???