Bogus support scams targeting Mac's
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/16/2013 03:55 PM
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A popular scam for years is "tech" support were PC users are convinced they have a non-existent problem with their computers and required to hand over hundreds of dollars for useless remote diagnostic and cleanup services.
Those are the words of a "technician" trying to convince a Mac user to hand over some cash.
Victims are often encouraged to sign up to multi-year support contract costing hundreds of dollars for worthless services.
one of the culprits is Speak Support, which offers “Mac® Techical Support” (sic). This according to Malwarebytes. They report that the firm is misusing the ping command to convince a victim that he or she has no protective software installed.
It achieves this by going to a site called protection.com that doesn’t respond to the ping utility.
Jerome Segura of Malwarebytes has put together a blog post explaining how the Mac support scam works in greater depth here.
If you want to know how to deal with these scams, you can find that here.
Those are the words of a "technician" trying to convince a Mac user to hand over some cash.
Victims are often encouraged to sign up to multi-year support contract costing hundreds of dollars for worthless services.
one of the culprits is Speak Support, which offers “Mac® Techical Support” (sic). This according to Malwarebytes. They report that the firm is misusing the ping command to convince a victim that he or she has no protective software installed.
It achieves this by going to a site called protection.com that doesn’t respond to the ping utility.
Jerome Segura of Malwarebytes has put together a blog post explaining how the Mac support scam works in greater depth here.
If you want to know how to deal with these scams, you can find that here.
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