Have you been called by a ‘BT technical support’ phone scam?

A “Norton Advisor” has joined in – asked me to type ‘eventvwr’, at which point I stopped and ‘spoke sharply’ to him. He hung up!

Doesn’t this revolve around banking confidence in the global transference of banking transactions by the public to a virtual digital system that profits the banks/big business/ and HMG . Where once you could go into your local bank and in real life speak to a real human being -face to face . Now its through “agents ” employed or contracted by companies or banks to isolate themselves and their liabilities by hampering access to real public redress . You are told to contact -A/B/C NGO,s etc who are are buffer on the second level to getting real justice . More and more control of all our actions is passing in BIg Brother fashion to virtual control , even our energy is heading to government control , our money can be shut off at a whim leaving the population vulnerable to obeying all orders from above . This country will end up being ruled by diktat not by our own voting system but by proxy by the IMF/WB/ USA Conglomerates / USA commercialism , it will be as much a shell company as computer systems having a shell to operate it . Malcolm , in the past I have been criticised for posting the URL,s of websites that are not acceptable to some here because of their radicalism , I took it that the feminist aspect would also be “not approved ” . I don’t care where I get info from I judge only on results.

I was just called a few minutes ago by a woman claiming to be from BT stating that my internet will be terminated for two weeks, I knew it was a scam straight away and told her so. I feel so sorry for the elderly who are more trusting and may get taken in by this.

I have been called by both “Microsoft technical department” and now “BT technical department”. The number that called for the BT Technical Department is 01652 125 847. This has been going on now for years, and no matter what I say it just gets worse. I had one person swearing at me and calling me a liar. This is just not acceptable. I would be interested to hear other stories and if there is some way of stopping them It is really harassment. I am a pensioner so am at home a lot.

I have just received a call purporting to come from BT Technical Department. I spoke first to a woman who said that they had spotted some errors with my internet connection, then to a man ‘ Peter’ ; both had foreign accents. The phone number was 01246 918412 (Chesterfield). I asked the man where he was calling from and he gave the address 81 Newgate St London (which is a BT address) but when I asked the postcode he said BT05 69. So I told him he didn’t know what an English postcode looked like and rang off.

phoned today from 01498067540 with a guy saying he was calling from BT Internet Technical team and that my computer had been infected by virus’s from downloads. I strung him along for a while, he did not know my name nor whether or not I was a BT customer. When I pressed him by asking him if, presumably, he wanted me to give him remote access to my computer he hung up…. such a pathetically bad scam that I’m insulted

Had 3 silent calls and then today they spoke, claiming to belong to BT technical department and that foreign people were accessing my computer when I logged on. I told him I doubted that and asked which building he worked in, he gave BT’s head office which seems unlikely to have a tech department ringing. I told him again I didn’t believe him and ended the call

i just received a call from a number saying they are bt technical support they asked me to get up my ip address as someone was using it in california , i told them no because i think its a a scam and he insisted on passing me to his manager whom i insisted give me a number to call him back, and so he did and then kept the phone line connected so he was still there when i tried to call him back so i told him ive put the number into the computer and he is not bt technical support team the number is not london based as he had earlier claimed but portsmouth and surprise surprise he put the phone down . i phone dbt technical suppory who confirmed they had not phoned me.

Same call received just now. An Indian lady saying she was from BT technical support in London, and her technicians had noticed faults on my internet line. Asked her where she was really phoning fom – she insisted BT but I was already reaching for the end call button. No number available to block or check.

I got the same call today from a guy with an Indian accent telling me that BT had alerted them to malicious malware on my pc and asking me to type eventvwr in the “run” window…
I told him it was a scam and hung up.

Even though I am with Virgin I had the call this morning Insisting They handled the connections to the Internet for Virgin . The scammers told me that someone was using my router at 0200 for nefarious means and that they would turn off my access at 1200 on the 6 th of September . I rang Virgin and confirmed with them that it was a Scam .

I have been called several times from a busy Indian call centre purporting to be BT Technical services, most recently this morning. They claim there have been hundreds of faults on my broadband line and want me to sit down in front of my computer whilst an ‘engineer’ talks me through what to do. I told him to stop scamming and get an honest job!
Co-incidentally I have had three months of faults on my line, but BT Openreach engineers visited me several times and eventually sorted out the problems, after I called them!
Don’t trust anyone that you have not called yourself using a legitimate phone number you found.

Just got a phone call from an Indian call centre claiming to be from BT and that I had downloaded errors from the Internet that was causing them problems. As I’m on Virgin, and know enough about the technical side of things, I knew this was all nonsense and a scam. She insisted that, although I didn’t know, it BT controlled all the Internet in my area and wanted me to visit a website to prove who they were. I hung up.

5 minutes later I got a call from a man at an Indian call centre claiming to be from Sky and that my Internet was about to be cut-off. I hung up.

I’m awaiting a phone call from another service provider. If they keep trying they might even get it right.

I had a bad experience today with someone telling me they were from bt technical department and informed me I was having my broadband shut down because I had a virus,and he could fix it,even when I told him I was disabled and that I would have to wait for my son to come home from work,he got very agitated and forceful,so I hung up on him,even then he rang me back,but I would not speak to him, I did 1471 and got a number 01213862743.so friends beware. 11-9 2017

Just received the “your internet will be disconnected” routine from “Jason” purporting to be from Virgin Media (who I have an account with), talking a load of bull about other devices using my line; I received a similar call from a “BT representative” earlier today. All of the scam calls I get sound like they are from Indian based call centres. I don’t get taken in by these people but it boils my **** when I think they could be talking to the elderly and vulnerable.
I haven’t heard of any organisation that has the capability or drive to shut down these groups.

Just had a call from “BT INTERNET SUPPORT” now 10.34 on 13/9/2017. “your computer is infected”
Call from 02392462370 Told him what he could do!

Contacted today with the same approach “error messages appearing related to some type of malware on my broadband giving me a very bad broadband connection” even the transfer to someone higher up who could further help. I eventually said that I was incapable of doing what they had requested and would have to involve my son and they rang off after saying someone from BT would come around tomorrow to help, very plausible I have to say, fortunately I googled and found this during the conversation, thank you.

I’ve just had a withheld call from a man claiming to be a senior manager from BT technical support. He said my internet connection was going to be disconnected at 2pm today as my line has been hacked and it be would be off for 15 to 20 days . My alarm bells rang straight away but I decided to play naieve and see what he was up to. He went on to ask me to check lights on our router and then started to ask questions about who has access to internet and what devices do we use – I pointed out it was irrelevant. He then mentioned it cost £200 for reconnection but he could help make this less, as BT didn’t want to charge us! I told him that we would pay nothing for reconnection if they needed to disconnect, as it was not our responsibility and bombarded him with questions about this £200 charge. I mentioned to him that people have rung me asking me to turn on computers so he didnt take this approach. I then went on to ask his name and for contact details as the line belongs to my father and he’d want to speak to the BT tech department. He was very convincing and said he was Nick Barker and contactable on 0201 0000 2918. Of course none of this is true and as soon as I Googled it I came up with info on the scam. However they are very clever so I thought I’d add my tale on here, in a bid to thwart them in their tracks!!!

Just had a call from someone saying they were from BT and that my internet would be down for 3 days, I pressed him for a name and he said he was John Samuels, I them asked him from the office he was calling from and he said 18 Newgate London. I then asked him for a phone number and he gave me 02032899604, I then told him that I was going to call BT and he was totally unfazed saying that I could call him back, which I did to check the line, and surprise surprise it rang but nobody picked up

Scammers will try anything ! If a few fall for their scam they will keep on using it Many must be falling for this BT scam It will continue until the scammers know that now it is not going to work or only rarely

I was called today by an Indian man, supposedly from BT, saying that we had reported slow broadband and they wanted to upgrade us to solve the problem. When asked who reported it, he just quoted the account name back to me (initials + surname). He repeatedly asked me to go to our router. Watch out for phone calls from 01264254456. This number has been reported numerous times in the last few days.

19th September 2017. Received a call from an Indian sounding woman. “I’m calling from BT technical department-” “No you’re not dear ” I said and hung up. Call was apparently from 01216461280.This whole business is damaging to the reputation of genuine Indian engineers.
Such a pity.

I was called this morning 10:09 am by Mike from “BT Technical Department”. When I said that I am not with BT, he said that he understands that my provider is not with BT but BT is the mother provider of all broadband and internet provider and, that if I am not going to continue with the call, he will immediately disconnect my internet connection. He added that this call is recorded and that disconnection will be immediate. I asked for his number and he gave me 0800 023023 and I asked I will ring back. But, he insisted that by the time I call back, my internet will be disconnected. However, his number is displayed as 01542833285 and when I tried ringing the 0800 number, it isn’t an actual telephone line to that. Need to stop such cold-calling wasting our time.

This girl with an asian or indian accent said she was from BT asked me go to my computer and follow her instructions for fix foreign IP access – sounded like a scam so hung up

Curious number of people on here who don’t seem at all phased when phoned up by someone claiming that their internet is, almost instantly, to be disconnected for 10 or 20 or 30 days. In the sense that they see it to be quite a possible event. At the very least I would have expected an e-mail from my internet provider warning me, and I would have gone to my internet provider’s website to check my messages as well – obviously not through any link provided in the e-mail. Even if you think the phone call might be true surely you’d still go to your IP’s website which MUST be the source of the true information about your possible predicament. Presumably those that fall for these phone scams are the same people who think they’ve won a Spanish lottery they’ve never entered.

Just had a call from someone who claimed to be a BT technician . Told him he wasn’t and to stop telling lies. The number they rang on was 01527541362

I have been called on quite a number of occasions usually I don’t answer the phone as it comes up international, however last Saturday it didn’t say that just a random number came up & yes it was an Indian guy telling me my internet had been hacked & could I go to my pc to switch it on, I told him no & goodbye. They are still trying to contact us we must get at least 4 or 5 calls per day just refuse to answer the phone.

I was phoned this morning by ‘so called’ BT engineer with a very foreign accent, wanting me to open PC for him to check and rectify viruses etc. If I did not comply, he would cancel my BT licence number for internet…..would not take him on, as I new it was a scam…his name was Paul, and phone was 016071184625, gave his office at BT Newgate Street, London. I could check it out by phoning 0800 232023….did not bother wasting my time, but he was very persistent, and I could understand older people falling for it
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