Y-tech Solutions phone scam?

mbrownish

Not sure if this the place to ask, but I've had a lot of junk calls recently despite being on the Telephone Preference Service (all international). I've now got Caller ID to screen calls, so I guess that's the best I can do.

My question, though is about this: this morning my wife answered a call from someone claiming to be Y-tech Solutions and got the "something's wrong with your computer, it's emailed us on behalf of Microsoft" nonsense. She got a UK number out of them to call them back (yeah right...) - 02025133309. There must be someone I can report this to, but I'm not sure who. Any suggestions?

OldGreyFox

No such UK Numbering Range

See: http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm

If you get a proper UK Number complain here http://complaints.tpsonline.org.uk/Consumer/

Heinz

As the number is bogus (no surprise there), there's nothing you can do except pat yourself on the back for not being taken in and handing over access to your computer to overseas criminals.

mbrownish

Oh, well, OK. Never mind then!

It's very frustrating that BT etc can't deal with these junk calls better; they seem completely helpless (hopeless...) when the calls come from abroad.