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A woman, with an accent, called, saying that she was a Microsoft IT tech. That they had received a virus warning from my IP address. That she needed me to download a remote software, so she could find the problem. That's as far as I let this scamming little scumbag go.
       I tried to recall the telephone number, that came in on caller ID, said it was an unknown number,
looked it up on Google, it said no such area code 826.
       Think the whole thing is just a money scam: Beware

The same just happened to me.  The company he said he was with is V2serve.  He also gave me their website which is v2serve.com.

THIS IS A SCAM. Read about the your-PC-is-infected scam here http://news.softpedia.com/news/Cold-Call-Tech ... on-150170.shtml They lie about your PC sending out malware, error messages, etc., and say your PC is about to crash to frighten you into giving them remote control of your PC to fix the nonexistent problem (don't let them!). If they ask you to open the systems tab in eventvwr.msc to see all the errors, these harmless errors are *normal* for any Windows PC (mine has several and it runs just fine). Don't let them take control of your PC because they can download *real* malware, possibly a malware suite, that can spam, steal bank logins and personal info, etc. If they've remoted into your PC, the safest fix is to re-format your drive and re-install your OS assuming you have clean backups of your data. You can try scanning with various antivirus software but scanning may not find all the malware. If you don't know how, get help from friends or pay a local shop to do it. THIS IS A SCAM.

This to inform all, that though V2Serve do cold calling as like other IT/Tech Support companies, However Neither anybody in our organization says they are Microsoft or linked with Microsoft Nor they are authorized to say so, As they are "Certified Microsoft System Engineers" trained professionally in Microsoft systems to fix the problems, but that does not makes any link with Microsoft, There are few Scammers who do this & using our company's name, as because V2Serve is a registered "Incorporated" & 100% Legitimate business. It seems like some Scammers are trying to do scam using our company's name, as because if V2Serve calls anybody they call from their phone number which is easy to get back to & always flashes on everyone's caller id i.e. starting from 281-668 which is of Houston TX in USA, 020-8144 of London in UK & 075-660 of Queensland in AUSTRALIA, As we do not fool around people by saying "We do not cold call" & at the back stage getting the telemarketing done from India/Philippines or some other country, Because we say what we do & we do what we say. More over you can always call the person back on this number before you do anything over the phone just to make sure/double check whether its not a scam. We never call from unknown numbers, since we are a registered business, Else we would not be having hundreds of satisfied customers & More over there is no survival in market, which is very logical to understand.

Hence we request you to kindly beware of Scammers who calls from unknown numbers & using our company's website v2serve.com, as if we make a search on Google by the name of V2Serve, we will get more companies using the same name & they are not even registered, which clearly indicates the scam.

We hope our this message will reach to those scammers & they will stop these scams, as our research department have already started tracing these scammers, In other words its a warning for them, Either stop all this or be ready to get busted.

Regards,

V2Serve Bpo Private Limited
v2serve.com

quirie this cold calling company ,and check their true identity .and what they are able to do to your computer from their end..
As a non technical computer owner ,who merely uses it to talk to friends on a health site ,or receive emails(I NEVER open a suspect email or internet page)..

Please can these ppl be checked ,as i`m concerned as to the safety of my laptop..

Hi Sharon,

Hope you must have read the reply posted above to Djjs by us, So whom you wants to get checked "V2Serve" or are you asking us to check these people who are spoiling our name in market, if so then for that our research department & quality department is already after their life, the day we get hold of any of these guy's we won't spare them at all. However till then we would request you to kindly co-operate with us any information you get to know about them.

Regards,
V2Serve Bpo Pvt. Ltd.
www.v2serve.com

V2Serve just called me too.  They gave me 877 805 6353 as the call back number.   They said they are a group of Microsoft.   They were clearly from a call center.