People in Tauranga are continuing to receive computer repair scam phone calls months after police first warned the public.

Senior Sergeant Rob Glencross says Tauranga police are receiving complaints every day from people who have received calls advising them their computer has a virus.

The scam involves cold calls being made to people advising them that their computer has a virus.

'The caller ‘helpfully' takes you through a series of steps giving them remote access to your PC and showing you where the virus is,” says Rob.

'The caller then offers to sell a service contract and takes credit card details as payment.

'Unfortunately there is no virus and the potential now exists that spyware has been loaded providing remote access to all the information on the computer including bank details, email lists, and information of a personal nature.”

Police advise anyone receiving such a call to simply hang up.

'Under no circumstances give anyone information enabling them to remotely access your computer nor should you give anyone your credit card details,” says Rob.

If anyone suspects there is a problem with their computer they should take it to a local service provider to be checked.

The scam caller often declares they are working for the ‘Global Computer Maintenance Department of the World'.

Read how Not the News journalist Apis Tayka handled the call from this well-named group here.