No, it’s not your ISP.

Published on June 25, 2016 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Seeing a pop up claiming to be your ISP sayng that a system scan has revealed spyware on your computer and gives you a number to call for assistance – usually a 1-800 number like this one: 1-866-601-3127 – please don’t call it. That number is changed as soon as it’s reported.

This scam’s hook is successfully identifying your ISP. How do they know it? By rogue ads on websites…background redirecting and IP identification. Then a customized scam message is delivered to the person targeted.

Once the person falls for it, they can make money from “cleaning” your machine and getting a credit card number to sell onward, or be installing “security software” which will report your financial dealings on the net, and adding your machine as a slave to do other attacks.

Sweet, eh?

Well, now that you know about it, you can avoid it.

Source:

https://www.infopackets.com/news/9876/fake-tech-support-scam-gets-new-twist

Comments

DaveRI

on Jun 25, 2016

Thanks for the notice.

"If it looks funky, it probably is."

LightStar

on Jun 25, 2016

Yep., I get calls like that sometimes, too damn often IMO. So I basically tell them to f'off!

Ralph598

on Jun 25, 2016

I work tech support for an ISP, been seeing these kind of calls for over a year now. They started out just as a pop-up on the screen but now some have gotten sophisticated with audio saying you computer is infected and something on the screen about the "This is the Blue Screen of Death", to call Microsoft, the ISP or someone else. One time I called the number on one of my customer's screen and it was answered by someone with a Southeastern Asian accent how said he was in Miami; I believed that as much as if he said he had oceanfront property in Arizona.

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