Scam phone calls

Is there away of reporting these numbers so that I can have them stopped etc. I am on TPF but they only deal with UK phone numbers the five I have today all start with 001 and have had 3 with 0010000000000 Getting fed up with them time BT stopped this
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The fake windows call's are impossible to stop BT say they cannot stop them because they said they reside in another country, at least thats what they told me.
I did some research into them a while ago and found they used to be a legit company that did some work for microsoft I dont remember the details but did have them written down address, bank details and most important and hardest to get was there phone number as they always withhold that when calling you. I also did report them with all there details to the police but they did what they always do nothing.
If I can find there details which i did write down I will post them here, phone number, address, ip, bank details ect.
You could get caller display and not answer any number with held and there number if you see it which is normally withheld
For some reason they dont call me any more LOL

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I have been receiving a large number of scam phone calls. Verizon only allows 5 phone numbers to block. I am almost at my limit. Does anyone know what other options there are to block the calls. On my old phone, I had ringtones that included silent and blocked, but I can't figure out if there is a way to do that with this phone.

You can not stop them, You can report them, but they spoff the number and the location. Ihave tried reporting, Yes the 5 calls blockagre is nice but soon fills up. My landline phone has more but it filled up in lst then 4months. I loved theone from a guy who wanted me to send $400.00 I owed a bank in CA. and then asked for my SSN so They could sue me. If a I owe a bank, they already got my SSn. Needless to say this 76 year old hang up.

WARNING SCAM Phone Calls purporting to be from BT ...

At 08:55 today I received a phone call from 0800 169 1608. An Automated message was left purporting to be from BT and prompting me to press numbers on my keypad I.e. if I was the Account holder press 1 etc. As I was concerned it could be something important, I tried to recall the number but connected to another automated message again purporting to be from BT and that if required, they would ring back. After Googling the phone number I became suspicious and contacted BT directly to see if they had any knowledge about calling me. They informed me that it was not BT, it was a SCAM call and to email them at [email protected] with the details. According some entries on Google this scammier is trying to obtain Account details and God knows whatever else ! This afternoon I received a call back from the Real BT reassuring me that it was definately not them calling earlier and that they would be carrying out an investigation and would recontact me again in a few days time.

So before you or anyone you know falls victim to the scheme, bear these tips in mind:
•Be suspicious of unexpected phone calls asking for personal or financial information, regardless of who they claim to represent.
•Be warned that banks will never ask you for your PIN or online information over the phone.
•Know that your bank will never ask you to withdraw money to hand over or transfer to another account.
•Your bank will never send anyone to your home to collect cash, a payment card or a cheque book.
•If you’re worried that the call may be real, hang up and call your bank through a different phone line.
•If you think the call is a scam, take note of the caller’s phone number and report it to Callercenter.com. Spread the word and warn others.

Scam Phone Call

Just got 2 phone calls back to back from 800-888-9614 saying that Verizon was crediting me $83 and to go to www.vzw83.com, log in, and redeem my refund.
There is a website when you type it in and when you click on anything it takes you directly to the Verizon Website.
I'm pretty sure this is a scam, so watch out for it!

I looked up the phone number you shared and http://www.callercenter.com/800-888-9614.html came up along with complaints from several others who got called, too. Looks like this scammer has been calling people for a while now.

Warning: Scam phone call

This morning I received a phone call from some people claiming to be from BT's Potential Malicious Use department (or something similar). The woman said her name was Venniser. When I said I had trouble understanding her heavy Indian accent she handed me over to a man whose name sounded like Dariel. They claimed that malicious software had been downloaded with my emails and that this was uploading more malicious software on to the BT servers. Because of this, I was going to be disconnected from BT internet. They claimed that my anti-virus and firewall wouldn't protect me from the threats.
I was unwilling to follow any directions given over the phone to resolve the 'issue'. I asked the woman for my BT billing reference as a way of confirming that the call was genuine. The number she gave me was wrong - it didn't even start with the right letters. If I'd know at the time that BT employees have an ID number, I'd have asked for that instead of their names. When I told Dariel that BT would have sent some kind of notification of their intention to disconnect, he told me it was probably in my Spam folder. It isn't. I haven't received anything from BT, email or post, since my last bill. When I said I didn't believe the call was genuine, he told me he was going to disconnect my internet there and then, and disconnect my phone at the same time. I said goodbye and hung up. That was two hours ago. I'm still here!
The call sounded like it was coming from an office or call centre - there were other voices in the background. Dariel gave himself a convincing job title - Senior Supervisor. When I dialled 1471 to find out who had called, there number was not available. This is a scam.

There are so many scams doing the rounds that you would have to get Microsoft, Banks, Building Societies, Pension Companies, Lottery Companies etc etc etc to put out emails warning of them then you would have to get emails warning you of phishing emails about warning emails from these companies and so it goes on.
The best thing is to remember that NO reputable company will ever phone you unsolicited and ask you to reveal any personal details, log on username or password details or security questions or to access your computer.
They will never ask you for bank account details or tell you that there is a problem with your bank card and they will arrange a courier to pick it up or any of the many other ways to get you to part with your cash.
No ISP will contact you about corrupted files or folders on your computer effecting their servers or that you have a virus.
In short, any one who phones you wanting your details or access to your computer is a scammer.

My macbook won't start up, it gets stuck on the blue screen. can it be fixed? i suspect a hacking due to a strange phone call earlier which i thought was a scam.

my macbook won't start up, it gets stuck on the blue screen. can it be fixed? i suspect a hacking due to a strange phone call earlier which i thought was a scam.

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Phone call scam

I have just received an international phone call from a lady who said she was from the local internet exchange on behalf of BT, Virgin, TalkTalk etc., and everytime I switch on my computer there are corrupted files at the main server. She wanted me to log in to a website so that they could help me rectify this problem.
I asked her if she knew my BT account number because I was suspicious and she then became rather agressive and eventually hung up.
I am positive this was a scam, anyone else heard of it?

magpieman wrote:
whitefalcon wrote:
what time did you receive the call? did you get the phone number? did you report to the authority?
Hi whitefalcon
It was around 4pm when I received the call. There was no phone number showing on the call, it just said "international" I have phoned BT to report the call but the call centre operator didn't seem to be much interested and just told me that BT wouldn't phone without using my name and quoting my account number etc.
Hi again.
I'm afraid that there is virtually nothing BT can do about this. These scammers pretend to be legitimate people, and I have got details about what they try and get people to do (as I pretended to do all I was asked when I had one).
The call could be from anywhere, including internet calls etc. The originating number may not even be fully presented since not all countries have that facility, or can't be trusted to present the full number properly or completely.
The thing to do is either play along and do nothing, or just hang up. You could try asking them for a number to call them back on as you're about to go out.
You can say you use Linux or a Mac. You can ask them how they know that your computer was infected and how they associated your phone number with a problem. Ask them for exact details and give nothing away.
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Phone call from woman saying our Internet will be disconnected tomorrow.

We had a phone call tonight from a woman who claimed to be from Telstra, saying that our Internet was going to be disconnected tomorrow because our downloads were interfering with Telstra computers. When I claimed "[Bleep]" she said thank you and hung up. Anyone else had this one?

Yes I know. This is the page that tells me I need to contact you, which is why we're having this conversation now. There is no option to report phone scams. The only options are: Hacking, Port Scanning or attempted intrusionUnsolicited Bulk Email or SpamPhishing ScamsVirus Prohibited content (eg: pornography or sexually explicit content)Defamatory material (eg: publication by another person of a false and derogatory statement about you)Copyright infringement (eg: if you believe somebody else has misappropriated material over which you hold copyright None of these options cover phone calls from people claiming to be from Telstra. It says for other issues please contact us. This option leads me to you and all you have done is send me back to the page that told me I had to contact you. :/

Phone call saying they were from Microsoft Windows

I received a phone call today from a man that said he was from Microsoft Windows, & that Microsoft had been receiving notices for several weeks that " something" was wrong with my computer. Offline he had me do a system check, then said my computer
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Hi, I also had a phone call from someone who claimed they were from the microsoft team and were having warnings suggesting that my computer had serious issues. When I asked which computer they said the one with windows 7. After a long phone call
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Fraudulent phone calls?

Hello and sorry if this is in the wrong section.
I have been a customer of BT for a while now and not heard of this before. I’m getting regular phone calls from people claiming to be BT, telling me they can reduce my broadband cost as long as I stay with BT for the next three months. Now this sounds all well and good but I have had problems in the past with scams form people claiming to be Sky etc and I have been told that companies wouldn’t be phoning me to gain information from me this made me suspicious, also on asking them to write to me with the information the caller seem to get unclear on my contact details.
So community am I being over protective or am I right to be worried about these phone calls?
Thank you,
Richard.

BT don't offer any reduced rates for a three month contract commitment, so I would say the calls are a scam. You can get a very good deal by renewing your contract for 12 months though, the best thing you can do is ring sales on 0800 800 150 and then ask to speak to someone form COT (the customer option team). This way you know your dealing with BT, and if you're happy to stay with BT for 12 months you can make some pretty hefty savings.

Mac support phone call??

Has anyone received a phone call saying they are from Mac Support? I said I was not interested before they could finish their sales pitch, but I am curious as to how they would know if someone owned a Mac, or if it was just a random lucky call? Any security issues I should check into?
Thanks

It's a scam, hang up on them should they call back. Apple won't initiate contact with you via phone unless you've asked them to call for support.

Phone calls to my sister's number in NJ aren't accepted from my phone #

I have Verizon landline service; my sister in NJ has Comcast. When I try to call her home # I get the following recording, "Phone calls are not being accepted from this number." My sister checked with Comcast, and they said the issue is on my (Verizon) end. When I use my cell phone to call her number I get through right away. What is the problem?

The problem you are encountering can be rectified by simply pressing *82 before you dial out to call someone. The feature you have on your home phone is a valuable one which is that your name and your phone number will never appear on someone else's caller id because this feature automatically is activated for you to protect your personal info from popping up on someone's caller id. If you have fios tv and you were to call your own home from your cell phone while you have your tv on then you will see on the left hand side of the tv what it is that someone would see without you deactivating the feature where if you want to test out what someone is going to see when you press *82 before you dial out a number to test it out by calling your home from your cell phone too. That caller id feature on tv is something that needs to be activated by pressing menu on the remote then go down to the settings area go right then go down to caller id where it will ask you to check availability by pressing ok then it will be activated. You can also scroll down to alert duration and make the name and number stay up to 15 seconds which is a benefit to those who have a tv on but are not right in front of it but do not want to pick up the phone so you can check out who it is by looking at the tv. It is not only homes that will want you to temporarily deactivate the feature. There are restaurants or pizzerias who may ask you to deactivate it because there are people who place bogus orders just to mess with places that make food or if they want to prank their neighbors. If you press *82 you do not have to worry about it being permanently disabled as it will go back to being enabled by default and will continue to protect your personal info from appearing on people's caller ids so you will not end up having to deal with harrassing phone calls. Now i also want to mention that when you call a 1 800 number all of your personal info will appear regardless of whether you have the feature activated or not so it is possible that you may get some telemarketing calls. There is however the do not call registry that you can go online to sign up for to try to get 1 800 number telemarketers to not harrass you and if you are already on the list where they still continue to call then contact the ftc (federal trade commission) to file a complaint with them. Write down the the numbers of those people so you can give it to the ftc so they can pursue legal action against the harrassing parties. The last thing you should know of is the microsoft scam. It is a group of people from india who microsoft once used as a support group who are pretending to be microsoft but they are not microsoft. They contact people who are fios customers demanding access to their computers because according to them the computers are infected with a lot of viruses where they want to get rid of them for you. Do not allow them access because if you do they will not only steal your info but also your money among other things but they could also pretend to be you while they go around infecting other people's computers or try to hack into banks where you would be the one who people would go after and try to either sue or incarcerate because of a crime that was committed. Google "microsoft scam" to see how big a issue this is where fios customers are being targeted by those cyber criminals who are not really microsoft employees but a bunch of con artists who are robbing people all over the country.

Really bizarre phone call - says I won a free iPhone 5S

So I'm just curious if this has happened to anyone else - on September 19th, I received a phone call from an unknown UK number.
After taking the call - I was informed by a young male caller that I had won an iPhone 5S due to the fact that I had downloaded iOS7 the night before. It was extremely bizarre as the caller went on to claim that this was a giveaway/contest associate with Apple & congratulated me on winning the prize.
I told the guy that I was not interested & he suddenly provided me with my email address & my birth date (and obviously he had my phone number). He went on to say that he did not require any credit card information and would only need me to provide a shipping address (because it was not provided on my iTunes account ... I know this is incorrect because my mailing address is definitely on there). On a whim I provided him with an address I had access to, that was not connected to any of my personal accounts. After hanging up on the guy, I called Apple right away to verify if this was in fact a scam.
Apple confirmed that there are no contests/giveaways of the sort and asked me if I had entered any external "giveaways" recently. The answer is no - I had not. Because I had not given the person any important personal information, I let the situation go and went on with the day and pretty much forgot about it.
Then, a day later, I received a text message from the same individual noting an Apple order number. After calling Apple - it was verified that this was in fact a legitimate order and was being shipped to the address I provided within 2 weeks.
At that point, I decided to just see what happens next.
I called Apple on October 1st to verify if the order still existed (as October is when the iPhone 5s was to ship) and was notified that the order had in fact been terminated. This is when I came to the conclusion that the individual probably wanted my mailing address to either steal credit card information ... or something along the lines. Knowing that I did not provide a real address - I once again tried to forget the situation happened.
This individual just texted me informing me that I had cancelled the order & to confirm if I still wanted the prize.
And now I feel extremely paranoid. This seems to be an insane amount of effort to try and scam information & I want to know if I should advise the person who's address I provided to change all their locks and get an attack dog.
So just wondering if anyone else has experienced this ... ??

Sisi J wrote:
I think they must have gotten my info from Facebook. I did post that I got iOS7 up there .. And the rest of my info would be readily available.
I guess Ill see how this plays out - if I do receive a cheque ... I don't know. I may just toss it in the trash lol.
It's just so mean. When I received that text with the apple order confirmation number ... It was actually birthday. I had this joke with the friends that Apple celebrates my date of birth by launching phones on it - which is you know all silly jokes. But the fact that someone would use a day that's so special to you against you ... Well. The world is just messed up! Lol
If you actually get anything from them, in all seriousness, call you Police and let them have it. Anything that they can potentially use in any way to toss such people into prison is ideal to my mind. Physical things can often be useful to investigators in ways that most of us would never imagine.

Annoying International Phone calls!

Is there any way I can block international and withheld number calls? I was being hassled at my old address by phone calls from an Indian call centre claiming to be working for microsoft, asking me to let them check my computer for a fault. I know its a scam so I obviously put the phone down. When I moved, I took out some privacy thing, can't remeber what its called...but I thought this would stop all these calls...but they have started again! Can anyone help???

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