Tech support phone
scams are
a million-dollar industry that have been around for the past decade. There are
a variety of scams out there, the most popular being email, pop-up and phone.
Their goal is always greed. Through their deception, scammers gain access to
your financial information or convince you to spend hundreds of dollars to
“fix” your computer.
The people behind tech support scams pretend to be from the
technical support department of well-known companies. Then they tell you
there’s a virus or malware on your computer. It’s all a scam to get you to pay
for bogus technical support, or gain access to your computer to steal your
credit card number or other financial information.
How
the Scam Works
Using a phone directory, scammers randomly call
innocent people pretending to be from tech support phone
scams informing
them of an urgent problem. Scammers have even said they were calling on behalf
of PC Solutions; this just proves that no one is safe from the scam, consumers
or company. Next, the caller tells the victims to get on their computers to
open some files. This is where the scammers confirm the non-existent problem.
Now that they have located your computer’s
so-called problem, they will most likely do one of the following:
·
Get you to install software that provides them with your sensitive data,
like online banking information, usernames and passwords.
·
Ask for your credit card information so they can bill you for their
services.
·
Try to sign you up for a phony computer maintenance and warranty
program.
·
Ask for remote access to your computer, so they can resolve the issue.
·
Guide you to a specific website, which requires you to input your credit
card and personal information.
·
Try to sell you software that is available free online.
The main motives behind these scams are to extort the victim
to gain money as well as installing malware such as key loggers or backdoor
Trojans in order to gain access to personal information.
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