Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Microsoft and other legitimate tech companies do not send unsolicited email messages, make unsolicited phone calls to request for personal or financial information, or fix your computer. These tech companies will never proactively reach out to you to provide unsolicited PC or technical support. Any communication we have with you must be initiated by you. And, don’t call the number in the pop-up messages displayed on your computer or mobile device. Microsoft’s error and warning messages never include a phone number to call.
Tech support scam websites make you believe that you have a problem with your PC. You may be redirected to these websites automatically by malicious ads found in dubious sites, such as download locations for fake installers and pirated media.
These websites can use any of the following tactics to convince you that there is a problem with your PC that needs fixing:
If you have already engaged and paid for fake support:
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Please add this number to give an alert to everyone on Facebook and other social media 855 88 884 3072
"From: Customer Support theowojcik855-gmail.comSent: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 2:17 pmSubject: Shipment is out for deliveryamazon Your Orders Your Account Order Confirmation - 014-216-27062Hello Jane Martoccia,Thank you for your order. We will send a confirmation when your order ships. Your estimated delivery date is indicated below. If you would like to view the status of your order or make any changes to it, please visit Your Orders on Amazon.com.For any assistance, Call our Customer Service Toll-Free 1 855 717 1072"Here is another scam.
Please check out this website!!! https://www.placesprofile.com Mr. Mo trick me into believing that he represents Google My Business and if I pay him $399.00 one time fee for a life he will help me to verify my business and if I move to another state he will transfer and assist me free for life.In the telephone conversation, he used "google my business" many times. I tell him that I'm a small business and just open and don't have $399.00 to pay, so he proposed to pay one part $200.00 in June and another $199.00 in July. I agreed. Now I dealing with my credit company because he insisting to get paid.
For a SEO website it has a lot of broken links. All the links on the main menu are broken, meaning, the pages they go to cannot be found.I would not recommend that website to anyone.
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-Today it is the second time I received the message below:your computer is permanently blocked, call for support at 1-888-660-1789-I copy web address down and pasted it on a new page of word doc to make a note for myself, as below:hxxps://www.arralumnus.com /microsoft-help/criticalsecurity-24x7-helpline/-then I see the message on my document with this address: Microsoft OneDriveThere is a problem connecting to OneDriveCheck your internet connection and then try again.--below these lines, there is a clickable rectangular square with the words "Try again"I cannot make sense of all these and was frightened. I thus checked the phone number and found your site. I would like to hear your comments and I hope this helps others to be on their guard.
