Just had a call from "Stephen at PC Masters" regarding the error messages my pc has had recently which are tracked to him so he can phone me up and fix them, he hung up when pressed for some basic details (his no. and what OS I had) but 1471 reveals he is on 09141 401 414 (premium rate I guess)
Going to email trading standards and TPS but thought this info might be useful.
[url= http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/07/19/scam-uses-phone-call-claiming-to-be-microsoft/ ]PC Phone Scam - Details[/url]
This is the same scam as you've just described..It gets done over and over, just under different company names.
Lot of it going about right now.
Yep - my parents had the same. Again, they hung up when my dad pressed him for details of the system he was using. @*&*@*s!!!