MalwareBytes Suffers Impersonators
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/06/2015 05:28 AM
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Fake tech support incidences are becoming more common placed, but one group of scammers took it a step further and stole MalwareBytes logos to create a Twitter account and website in order to advertise for their ‘tech support’ services.
The scam is not located in the U.S.; the technicians are clearly from overseas and certainly have no affiliation with Malwarebytes whatsoever.
As is usual with these types of scams, the perps upload a script to the victims computer which shows fake warning messages. The victim is then told that the system can be fixed for a certain amount of money. This year alone, an estimated 3.3 million people in the United States will pay more than $1.5 billion to scammers.
Unfortunately, the victims are reporting to the Better Business Bureau that it was MalwareBytes that scammed them. It is hard when MawareBytes has to explain to them that the $699 they just spent was for nothing but a scam and that they may be victim of identity theft as a result of it.
MalwareBytes official support page for consumers can be found here.
Source: MalwareBytes
The scam is not located in the U.S.; the technicians are clearly from overseas and certainly have no affiliation with Malwarebytes whatsoever.
As is usual with these types of scams, the perps upload a script to the victims computer which shows fake warning messages. The victim is then told that the system can be fixed for a certain amount of money. This year alone, an estimated 3.3 million people in the United States will pay more than $1.5 billion to scammers.
Unfortunately, the victims are reporting to the Better Business Bureau that it was MalwareBytes that scammed them. It is hard when MawareBytes has to explain to them that the $699 they just spent was for nothing but a scam and that they may be victim of identity theft as a result of it.
MalwareBytes official support page for consumers can be found here.
Source: MalwareBytes
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