08-8888-8888

Got a call from this number today21/4/11 from what sounded like a Indian lady and there were numerous other people in the background.

She said she was calling about my computer and had noticed that I had several viruses.
She said she was a microsoft engineer.
I told her I thought she was a criminal attempting to gain access to my computer and hung up.

they have called me three times!

Trying to find out if I had had an accident which according to their records I had ..
Unwanted  rip off merchants on 0888888888. They were given short measure . About time these people were stopped.

Sounds like an Indian call centre. When I asked why they were calling they hung up.

Indian Call Centre, problem is there calling my works number

the caller wanted to speak to my daughter about her Aviva shares, and would not give me his number as caling from US. So iI said she wasnt available  and hung up. It showed as 08888888 on my phone. The caller gave name  but not company. i suspect it was scam.

Typed thenumber into google it came up as u die in 10 years if u get this call weird lol

i think it is a call centre named just dial. Kinda help line.

i received call from 0888883315243073, i want to know that who was there?

They Call mé two times.

we just had one and hurled abuse at an indian man.
It's all you can do, we have at least 15 per day!

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 call me from these number... she told me she was my wife... then i told her i was not married XD and hang up

Dtdc hr contact and imail id send of bangalore
Mob. 9036721699

I just kept saying "Hello, Hello"  in a languid way and the female caller who sounded foreign gave up.

PS.  I suspect that they were something like Pele's report above which makes for interesting reading.

They called and pretended to be from Telstra. Started demanding account details amidst threats of internet service termination. Totally fake, probably hunting info for identity theft purposes.

Had this number 3 times in 5 minutes, when I answer with our business name they hang up. Usually what telco's do!

They rang me today at about 3pm ,it was a female caller with accent ,she spoke very fast and claimed it had been overcharged for my internet ,but I don't have internet included in my home phone .she did claim that she was from telco or something similar ,I told her I am not with that provider so she then said are you with Optus ,lol I told her no ,so she then ask who was my provider ,I said that is none of your business and hung up ,what worries me is ,old people or people that are not as switched on ,I do believe these people are scammers and they need to be stopped .

I got a call from 88-88-8888 on 05/15/2014 at 2pm. When i saw this strange eight digit phone number,i rejected it.