Computer Maintenance Services - UK Scam

Just a heads up for UK based folks. These guys (computer maintenance services) seem to be phoning around people telling them that they are contacting them about a previously raised computer virus issue. They claim to be London based but are not (probably India), they refuse to give out phone numbers, contact details or the name of the person who allegedly contacted them about the problem. Needless to say, this is a scam so tell them to get lost, at best they will rip off your card details, at worst they will direct you to a site which hosts a trojan (masquerading as anti virus), infect your machine and nick all your logins, so beware.

A recent variant of this involves joining forums and sending out PMs stating that the forum has detected a virus on your PC with a link to an "anti-virus" site that will actually attempt to infect your computer.

Just to expand on Arnold's post (above)

spam Scammers will sign up to various forums and send Private Messages to its members such as this :-

From: leetizia537
To: Michelle
Posted: Thu Feb 25 2010 08:33 am
Subject: Attention!
Hello, my friend. I found report about your computer's security at:

http: //detected. co. cc /reports/Michelle -disabled link -Michelle

Please, take this into account.
Yours truly..

Another example of a similar PM here;

Dear, username!

There are viruses' activities from your computer! Highly recommend you to scan your computer for malicious and potentially unwanted software. If you do not follow this, I will have to make a complaint to your Internet Service Provider with attached log file (your IP address, etc.). If you want to find a report about your computer's security and solve every problem with it, please click here:

(link removed)

This is an online service that you can use for free spyware removal. Use it to scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep your computer running at its best. Use the free scan to check for and remove viruses, spyware, and other potentially malicious software and to find vulnerabilities or shortcomings in your Internet security.

Thank you. Yours truly, Cliff Edwards. < Fake name

Hi all,
These people have been scamming my site for the past year now, claiming to be computer maintenance services.co.uk i have been checking there progress with interest and have had a disclaimer on my web site for a while now,they have a site called thisistheone (dont go on it)unless you have a good firewall they tried to hack into my system while i was doing whois lookups, they are based in india (they sent me an email asking if i would like to be a "ground operative" lol,they claim to have a registered office in london (they have hired an adress there)and an 020 no,

so next time you call frank,your name is guldeep


Link Removed - Ralph

Hi CM and welcome

I am not sure what to make of this right now, fake sites is not my strong point but what I do know it that I dont like having live links to scam sites in a forum like this.

For that reason I have disabled the link and await advice from somebody with more experience in this area

Hey there CM,

can you tell me which site it is? The name is thisistheone, but am I looking for .net, .com, .co.uk, ...?

@Ralph: I believe that the link you disabled is the link to the site of the poster.

@CM: There is one little thing that bugs me on your site, which you should alter: There is no contact data on your site. No adress, no telephone number. Only the possibility to mail. Yet on your 'repairs' tab page I see the following:

No Call out Fee (within five mile radius) Free Quote's

I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly, but how would a customer ever know what that five mile radius is? Perhaps you should mention where that area is located

@Ralph: I believe that the link you disabled is the link to the site of the poster.

Thank you Michael, in that case I have removed the link completely, I wouldn't like others to suspect that site is fake as I have done

This actually sounds like a variation on the old "office supply vendor" scam, where someone calls offices and pretends to be a regular vendor, duping employes into buying overpriced product.

I've heard of a variation of this in Scotland
They cold call claiming to be Microsoft Helpdesk saying your pc has been sending error messages
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