Posted on 05/20/2016 8:04:14 AM PDT by KeyLargo
May 19, 2016 FTC expands tech support fraud lawsuit
Keith Griffin
The Federal Trade Commission has added three new defendants to an ongoing case against a tech support scam with ties to Connecticut.
The scheme allegedly bilked consumers out of tens of millions of dollars by pretending to represent Microsoft, Apple, and other major tech companies.
Back in November, the Connecticut attorney general's office joined in the FTC action along with the state of Pennsylvania in a request to shut down a tech support scam operating out of Essex and two locations in Pennsylvania that allegedly scammed consumers out of more than $17 million by pretending to represent Microsoft, Apple and other major tech companies.
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Phone Scam ‘Onslaught’ Has Authorities Scrambling
WSJ video ^ | 5/27/2016
Posted on 5/27/2016, 9:17:06 AM by KeyLargo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3434445/posts
Fraudsters impersonate victims’ ISPs in new tech support scam
Suspicious ads help provide the scammers with all the info they need.
David Bisson | June 23, 2016 9:36 am | Filed under: Malware, Security threats
Tech support scams have been around for quite some time. As a result, it’s no surprise these these ruses are growing in number and sophistication.
A tech support scam used to only consist of unknown fraudsters messing around with fake anti-virus alerts, or cold-calling potential victims pretending to be Microsoft and offering to help with a virus infection.
Not anymore.
Resellers of legitimate computer security software have been getting caught up in the scamming game. Not only that, but some scams are leveraging advanced techniques like computer lock screens to trick unsuspecting users.
It would now appear scammers have added yet another tactic to get what they want: impersonating a victim’s Internet Service Provider (ISP).
This new tech support scam begins with a pop-up message that interrupts a user’s browsing session. The message appears to come from the victim’s ISP, with Malwarebytes having detected several messages that claimed to originate from several popular U.S., Canadian, and UK Internet Service Providers including AT&T, ComCast, and TalkTalk.
Read at:
https://www.grahamcluley.com/2016/06/fraudsters-impersonate-victims-isp-new-tech-support-scam/
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