I knew about these scams for a while because of my time working IT before starting Brazos WiFi. I just wanted to post a reminder to those folks who may get surprised by these scam artists.
I just took a call from 800-843-0000 claiming to be from "Squad Geek". The very nice sounding Indian fellow informed me that my computer had "problems" that needed to be fixed. He walked me through looking at the Windows Event Viewer which is always full of errors and notices (it is an event log, after-all). After seeing that I had 17,201 errors, he proclaimed that we must work quickly to stop the "problem". At this point, he directed me to a website. I then informed him that I was an IT professional and that I knew what he was up to the whole time. I was only playing along to waste his time. He let out a long string of cuss words as I was bidding him a "good day".
REMINDER: Nobody is going to call you and tell you that your computer has a virus (unless you are paying someone to watch your computer). Don't fall victim to these scam artists.
I just took a call from 800-843-0000 claiming to be from "Squad Geek". The very nice sounding Indian fellow informed me that my computer had "problems" that needed to be fixed. He walked me through looking at the Windows Event Viewer which is always full of errors and notices (it is an event log, after-all). After seeing that I had 17,201 errors, he proclaimed that we must work quickly to stop the "problem". At this point, he directed me to a website. I then informed him that I was an IT professional and that I knew what he was up to the whole time. I was only playing along to waste his time. He let out a long string of cuss words as I was bidding him a "good day".
REMINDER: Nobody is going to call you and tell you that your computer has a virus (unless you are paying someone to watch your computer). Don't fall victim to these scam artists.
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