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Much like door-to-door scams of long ago, the internet scammers dupe naïve unsuspecting people into giving up private information or money to the criminal. Internet opened up another vector for criminals. Unfortunately, this is the reality of today’s world. He became increasingly agitated as I kept firing back, until he eventually gave up. So eventually, I told him that none of what he said was true, that I only have Macintosh computers he kept going on that it is not correct, that my Windows computer is infected and that they will have to completely remotely disable it because of this infection, unless I agree to let them fix it (for a fee). He kept blurting incoherent and absurd answers, which would probably be convincing to my grandmother (who died in the 50s).

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I kept asking questions, how did they discover that my computer is infected what is the specific type of vulnerability what is the specific version of my OS and the patch level, etc, etc. One time, I had nothing better to do, so I engaged. These are cold calls, and I usually simply interrupt with “not interested in your scam” and hang up. This reminds me of those scam phone calls, when you get a call from someone claiming to be Microsoft tech support, who purportedly discovered serious vulnerability on your computer that needs to be resolved urgently and they will guide you through the process for a small one-time support fee. MacDailyNews Take: Let’s be careful out there!

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Read more and see the screenshots in the full article here. We have contacted both the registrar (GoDaddy) and hosting provider (Liquid Web) so that they can take appropriate actions in shutting down these fraudulent websites.” The site was registered through GoDaddy and resides on IP address 184.168.221.63. “The crooks registered a website with a domain name that looks like the real Apple one () by calling it. “These pages are designed to scare people into thinking there is something wrong with their computer,” Segura reports.

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All systems are targeted, not just Windows PCs and in fact, fraudulent warnings for Mac are getting extremely common.” “As we have been documenting it so many times on this blog, there has been an explosion of tech support scams via malvertising and fraudulent affiliates.

“In today’s post we will talk about how we discovered that crooks are abusing this feature and fooling Mac users into trusting them,” Segura reports. The process is secure and requires a unique session key to authenticate into the system that the customer needs to enter at the following URL.

“Apple offers a screen sharing service part of its support center that puts you in touch with a remote advisor. Indeed, from the comfort of your own home you can let a Certified Technician remotely log into your PC and have them fix the issues you are facing,” Jérôme Segura reports for Malwarebytes. “Remote assistance is becoming more and more popular to troubleshoot computer issues without the hassle of bringing the problematic machine to a store.

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