Cold Calling for PC problems - NEW SCAM

[Mahoolah]

Not sure if this is the right section......

I just received a call at home from "NICK" in "BRADFORD" "Regarding an error report we have received from your computer. Its is telling us that you have many problem with spyware on it" "Microsoft sent us your details because your computer is not vurking properly"

Now seeing as I spend most of my day fixing computers I was quite interested to hear about how they had received an error report with my phone number on it regarding spyware "which you cannot see and nothing happens on screen but which means your computer is being used by bad people" (I quote verbatim).

This is a horrible new scam I fear, and will probably work with people who know little about computers and are paranoid about losing their bank details.

If you get a call from and Indian chap from http://www.supportonclick.com/ tell him that he has been asked to fleece the UK computer owner of £100 to fix your pc. Which I assume will never happen. And I'm sure the poor Indian chap has no idea its a scam - he probably just wants to help

I tried calling the bradford number of the company 01274 900834 and got a message saying "sorry you are not allowed to call India from this phone" - no comment.....

Who can I advise of this as I'm quite cross. It gives real IT people a bad name!

[EU_Foreigner]

My mother in law got the exact same call. Only thing is, she does not have a PC. Confused the hell out of her though.

[XMG5]

Where is the scam? What are they trying to get out of you in order to make the call profitable/illegal et al? As the caller is paying for the call and from your OP isn't asking for anything then I am slightly confused.com?

[oldsoak]

there's more about them ...> http://tinyurl.com/9y2az8
Googling their URL shows even more hits.

[Poledriver]

Interesting that they refer to themselves as being a "One-Click" solution, but their web banner says "On Click"!
Embarrasing Faux-pas, or bad translation?

Edited by Poledriver on Tuesday 6th January 14:34

[Scraggles]

ran a whois on the site, seems it is owned by this guy

http://mkshah.elance.com/

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?... seems to have summed it up well enough