Is it just my experience but are there an inordinate number of scammers out there recently? Its really shot up over the past year.
twice a month at my house:”microsoft windows here - we have detected a problem with your computer”
can barely understand them, the english is so bad
the long-distance switching and call-center pass off is so obvious
i tell ‘em I’m running Ubuntu - clueless
twice a month at my house:”microsoft windows here - we have detected a problem with your computer”
can barely understand them, the english is so bad
the long-distance switching and call-center pass off is so obvious
i tell ‘em I’m running Ubuntu - clueless
All apple users should understand that all such pop ups and items that appear to lock the computer should be shout down as follows:
Click the “apple” in the upper left hand corner of your screen. Select “force quit”. Select Safari from the listings. When Safari is re-opened, it may reload the same window grouping including the pop up. Force Quit again and then on re-start tell it not to open previous windows.
There are call centers everywhere in the Third World.
They can be used for good or evil. The equipment doesn’t change and often neither do the staff.
They rely on people’s tech addictions combined with ignorance, panic and lots of false but official soundng jargon.
I know of one poor sod who got a popup on his iPhone browser - a mere annoyance but he was convinced to call ‘Apple Support.’ Naturally, he didn’t even verify the 800 number matched the real support line. The scammer convinced him to connect his phone to his PC and THEN set up a remote session on the PC, expoaing him to untold horrors in keyloggers, spyware, etc. The usual Fear Uncertainty & Doubt routine followed along with a request for $270 to ‘fix the problem.’
Fortunately the phone owner snapped out of it in time but the scammer in Croatia, the Philippines or whereever had plenty of calls besides that one, I’ll wager.
Trickle down from the WH