SupportBuddy

6/8/17
Support Buddy called today and asked my wife to open the computer for them. Then they pretended to be a potential customer for our business. Ostensibly, to hold her on the line for an extended period of time. They are calling about one time per week to give us an update, refund, or PC cleaning. I believe that if you do business with Support Buddy, you will have to pay a ransom just to keep your computer in its present condition.

After a few years of mediocre service, they are no longer available at their previous phone numbers. They are probably not responsible for the numerous scams generated in their name, but it's best to take your computer to a trusted local source. I have a paid-for account which has apparently gone up in smoke! As a general rule-of-thumb, NEVER respond to a phone call from ANY proported computer maintenance company! Call them, not the converse.

We fell for this scam in June 2016. I regretted it as soon as we hung up the phone. I called our credit card company and stopped the payment. Thank goodness. They still call and tell us they want to refund our money but, my account was never charged. Today he said that the company had gone out of business and they had to refund the customers. I told them we hadn't paid anything and he said that I needed to get on my computer. No way. They have called so many times and sometimes we would hang up on them and they would call back immediately and say "why you hung up on me?" I told them to stop calling but, to no avail.

Same deal. They called to access my computer in order to refund my money in which there is no refund to pay.
Once in, they lock me out of my computer and which now I have no access.
Then instead of refunding my money they wanted $500 to fix the problem they had created.
Usually the phone number shows up on the display " unavailable "
The number *******0000 is not a valid number. They just called me on a *******569 which connects into a new voicemail that is not set up.
Whatever you do never allow them into your computer.

I signed up with Support Buddy in July 2016 with their two year support plan for $499.99, BIG Mistake. Each time I called them to support my computer they wanted me to purchase something else to support my computer. The costs for each of these programs to support my computer was from $200.00 to $400.00 +. They always told me whenever I called I had a problem with my computer and I needed to purchase another program to fix the problem. THEY ARE CROOKS.

I was advised to get support buddy to get ride of an unwanted program. I paid $299 in Sept 2016 for a years service according to the invoice received from Support Buddy. I keep getting telephone calls telling me I have other problems. The only problems that I had were when I allowed Support Buddy to make changes to my PC. I have not used Support for anything since the one time in September 2016. I asked them to discontinue calling me, I was told that I owe them money. I have repeatedly hung up on the so-called english speaking person who told me I owed them for work performed. I removed everything I could relating to support using Microsoft uninstall on the Control Panel. On my PC I use Windows 7..

I got the same pop up window/locked computer issue others have had along with a loud beeping sound. I called the number, they "fixed it" after two tries and many, many hours. I paid them a service fee of $180 but then they tried to sell me all kinds of service plans and additional software packages and just won't go away and leave me alone. I'm going to take my laptop to a local computer repair shop and make sure they haven't left anything behind that gives them the ability to re-infect me. I truly think they infected my computer on purpose.

Stay away from SupportBuddy - this service is a scam. They pray on those who have no clue about PCs and deceive them with claims such as "your PC is full of viruses and your Microsoft warranty is expired". I had to deal with removing such crap from the PCs of family members. It also having them cancel all their credit cards and changing all passwords to avoid identify theft. This company, who goes by the name "SupportBuddy.net" or "Support Buddy" should be shut down. If you see anything from them on your PC, shut down your browser and restart your computer. Do NOT contact them.