Tech Support Scams Are Back — Microsoft Warns Users Microsoft has issued an urgent alert to Windows users; ignoring it could end up costing you. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Mary JO Schrade, Assistant General Counsel, Digital Crimes Unit Asia. “Tech support fraud has evolved from pure cold calling to a more sophisticated infrastructure that leverages… Read More »
Did We Let You Down? We’ve made many attempts in the past to prepare you in case you run into a tech support scam on the Internet – and there are plenty of them. Here are a few of the articles we’ve written – some with plenty of screenshots to show you what you’re likely to… Read More »
Tech Support Scams Are Still Riding High We published this article in May 2017. At that time we were more focused on on the Microsoft support scams that were popular then. Since then we’ve updated this article and still, people are getting fooled by these kinds of scams. So here is another update and another reminder:… Read More »
26 Fake Indian Tech Support Call Centers Raided By Police; Arrests Made One of the most difficult things we have to deal with is when one of our readers falls for one of the many tech support scams that are ubiquitous on the Internet – the one we most frequently help people with is the Microsoft support scam… Read More »
Several Ways to Close Your Browser Quickly Darcy reminded me of something today … as she always seems to do. And that reminded me to make sure that you all know how to close a browser that has become unresponsive or when you click something and suddenly you’re faced with a tech support scam popup or other malicious… Read More »
IRS Scams & Tech Support Scams It’s tax season here in the USA and that means not only do you have to be careful about tech-support / your-computer-is-infected telephone scams, this time of year you have to worry about tax scams and folks impersonating IRS officials. An IRS agent is not going to call you out of the… Read More »