AnyTech 365 Scam? Search for information.

perps names are kevin harper and tom wilton 914 278 8026

Hi,

 Received this email as well -- for the second time.  This time the suggested charge was "only" $247.57, the email address was ******@gmail.com, and the phone number was +1(914)-785-6304 (with the 914 area code suggesting that it is here in Westchester County, NY).  Needless to say, both of the emails that I have received so far from this so-called company were a total fabrication and an all-too-obvious attempt to get my credit card number.

Thank you for your information Suzan.

Just to be precise: Teamviewer itself is not fraudulent. It is just a remote support tool used by a lot of IT specialists (legitimate ones and unfortunately also scammers).

Be aware that there also is a Scam scheme where scam companies using faked refunds to actually make charges to your credit card. So be careful there.

However we don't yet have information about whether AnyTech365 is active in that specific "area" of fraud or not.

In your case it probably makes sense to double check with your credit card companies if there have been suspicious charges.

HelloWorking in IT myself I got a couple of reports during the last year about a quite interesting "thing" (I think it's some kind of scam scheme) called "AnyTech 365". It's not your "typical" Microsoft phone call scam but something quite a bit more sophisticated.Interestingly there is/was only very limited information available on line.The "thing" (suspected scam) goes like this:Inexperienced users get prompted with misleading information (probably in the form of advertisement they don't recognize a such) which leads them to download some shady "pc repair software" (the name "Restoro" came up a couple of times). Once they run this software they are asked to contact a "support company" called AnyTech365. The people from AnyTech365 then try to sell them an expensive & long-running subscription for support services, usually costing a couple of hundred dollars (one "victim" reported that they even paid several thousand dollars).Now the thing is: This company AnyTech365 which is located in Spain acts like a reputable business. So it's not some unknown Indian call center that disappears after a few weeks. They are registered and seem to be in for the long run - giving the impression of a "real" IT service provider. Just that their customers don't seem to become customers "voluntarily" but through very misleading sales practices.At least this is what it looks like after gathering information from a couple of "victims".Since there wasn't much information about this (suspected) scam scheme available I posted a similar thread like this in the German language Microsoft Community Forums in December. This lead to reports from more people who felt that they were scammed by AnyTech365 and also to a recation from a public relations person from Any Tech 365 who of course was claiming that they are a legitimate company. (However that person also referred to a certification agency called "App Esteem" which seems to be specialised in the "fake" certifictaion of very shady software - so we probably have to assume that a company that gets certidication from "App Esteem" is probably shady too.)Anyway, since AnyTech365 seems to be active in a lot of languages & countries I thought that I also post this here in the English speaking community.So we might get a bigger audience and can gather more information about this suspected scam.

I have gotten caught up in this. AnyTech365 is telling me that they a charge on my card cleared for a $399 renewal. But, I cannot figure out which card they put it on. It is not showing up on any card that I am using. They have been leaving voice messages that start playing while my answer message is playing so all I have been hearing is something about cancelling this subscription and what number to call to leave a message if I want it cancelled. I didn't know what it was referring to so I have been ignoring it. I received an email telling me the renewal cleared but said I could call to cancel. I called and the first call answered with "Hello" rather than any business name was disconnected after I said I wanted to cancel. I called back and got a different man that I absolutely could not understand. There was squeaking and electronic sounds on top of his voice and I kept telling him I couldn't understand. He wanted me to go to Google (not Firefox) and enter www.teamviewer.com. But, I got into that with something else a couple months ago; it gives remote control to someone who was trying to get me to send a payment for about $10000 which he kept telling me was not going to clear, that it was just a test. I had to close my bank card, change SEVERAL passwords because of all he was able to see. The man today kept telling me that he was not trying to get into my computer, that he was trying to connect me with a technician that could get me to a form. But, after he hung up on me because I kept yelling over all of the cacaphony asking him if he was trying to get into my computer and him denying it, I clicked on the address above and it takes you to a remote viewer capability. So, he was trying to get into my computer. The man that I couldn't understand today called me a couple months ago saying that he wanted to give me last year's money back because I hadn't used the service. I couldn't understand him then, either and told him he was a crook and hung up on him. Anyway, stay away from AnyTech365 and teamviewer.com. They are dangerous.

Hopefully, as you stated in the German thread, the discussion stays as one of the top hits if people search for Anytech365.

Let's hope indeed.

One of the moderators of the German Microsoft Community has posted that AnyTech 365 respectively the company that owns the brand (Anteco Systems S.L.) tries to get the discussion deleted from the forums.

So far that attempt to shut down the discussion (and the information in the discussion which obviously reflects badly on the company) has been stopped by the moderators. But who knows what they try next.