The Tech Support Scam starts with what appears to be a helping hand to fix a technical glitch. The criminals will send a message by phone , email or text to convince you that you need help.

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Tech support scams start by fooling the victim into thinking there’s a need to fix their computer, phone or tablet, when in reality nothing is wrong with their device.

Carolyn Aronson got caught not once, but twice, by tech-support scams, to the tune of $800. The first time she was trying to download Windows 10 for free back in 2015. But a dire-looking warning ...

The System Support Alert tech support scam that displays a popup that pretends to be a Windows Defender alert. This fake alert then states that your computer is infected with the Zeus virus.

Operation Chakra-V scores success as a fraud syndicate is busted following the raid of a scam call center operating in Noida, ...

The Unknown System Failure Tech Support Scam is a web browser advertisement shown by scammy remote tech support companies that try to scare visitors into thinking that they are infected with ...

It’s not surprising then to know that an estimated 3.3 million U.S. consumers lost $1.5 billion last year to tech support scams. An October 2016 survey by Microsoft found that among victims, ...

Out of five million pages it visited, ROBOVIC discovered about 22,000 tech support scam pages hosted at roughly 8,700 domains. By a stroke of luck, ...

Hackers posing as tech support wreak havoc 01:30. Stacia Gates was on her computer one day when something strange happened. “This pop-up came up and it said it was from Microsoft,” she described.

Tech-support scams, in which fraudsters pose as computer technicians who charge hefty fees to fix non-existent malware infections, have been a nuisance for years.

Jennifer Janszen was having trouble with her new laptop that she bought during this past holiday season. So when a "Windows tech support" rep called, she figured Microsoft was just trying to help ...