While still ongoing, these unsolicited calls are no longer the only method by which cyber crooks attempt to sell worthless support packages.

For those who fall for the scam, the cost of ‘fixing’ these issues is usually steep, and in some cases more than the value of the computer itself. The experience is usually quite colourful, punctuated with claims of ‘your computer is infected’ and ‘hackers have infiltrated your network’, which are aimed at scaring the victim.

I don’t have (at least I don’t think i do and i’m too paranoid to check now) any of my parents credit card info saved on my laptop.Most of us have received, or at least know of someone who’s received an unsolicited call from ‘ Microsoft’. But also, I only really use my laptop for school and gaming. My question is if that was enough? Im not a huge tech person so I’m not really sure how to wipe my laptop. This happened about 15 minutes ago and i’ve deleted any and ALL the things that person requested me to download. The whole thing was so sketchy and i immediately stopped the call when I saw that someone was controlling my cursor and pressing a few buttons on the TeamViewer app. Stupidly enough, I fell for it and he eventually made me download something called AnyDesk and then an app called TeamViewer. He told me to go to my laptop so he could directly help fr there. He said somebody used my dad’s phone number to make an amazon account and buy an iPhone. Hi I don’t really use reddit to post stuff but just a few minutes ago I got off the phone with someone who claimed to be from Amazon.

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