Total money lost $320
Type of a scam Tech Support
I am a network administrator at a law firm in Toronto. One of our lawyers mistakenly clicked on an ad site that was controlled by these guys. When the attack starts a browser popup appears with their phone number and a warning that your computer is locked with a virus. Call Microsoft. When you call the phone number provided they ask you to press the start button on your keyboard and run a program. Once the program runs they give you a code to disable the lock on your computer. This is red flag #1, they knew the code to unlock the virus. Clearly it was their virus to begin with. Then they go through your computer, clean up the registry and install malwarebytes as well as their support tool. From now on their phone number will show up on your toolbar. For this nice service you have to pay upwards of $300.00 for this service guy to "fix" a problem that they created.
Victim Location 44502
Total money lost $200
Type of a scam Tech Support
Thought I had a computer virus, somehow they hacked my computer. I gave them my checking account number. After talking to friends, I realized it was probably a scam. I looked the address up, and it is a huge home in MI. and the company does not exist from what I can see.