Victim Location 06851
Total money lost $200
Type of a scam Tech Support
The caller claimed the company is closing and will refund the $200 technical support charged I paid. They asked to access my bank account on line so that they can refund the money directly to my checking account. During the processing they accidently put $8200. And they can not cancel the transaction. So they asked $8000 back.
The resolution for them is for me to use my credit card to purchase $200 gift cards (40 cards) from Wall Mart (they spell it wrong) or Best Buy or Amazon.com or Target. It’s the only way to return the money in 2-3 hours.
I told them the only way I will do is to transfer the $8000 from my BOA account to anywhere they want. They gave me a bank information as below:
name of account holder- kala lund
name of the bank- gandu bank
acc no- 24587475841
adress h no 420, chutia gali, bondu nagar, fuddi nagar near ca
GUESS WHAT – AFTER They hung up on me, the $8200 disappered from my checking account. I did not get the $200 for the cancellation of the technical support contract.
Victim Location 11208
Total money lost $280.24
Type of a scam Tech Support
In February 2018, I received a pop-up screen from Microsoft stating that my computer was going to crash and there was a telephone number (855-666-1991) to call to the fix the problem. When I called, I spoke to a person with an Indian accent named Mark and he said that I was being hacked and their tech support could fix the problem by providing a three-year subscription for $280.24. I was scared that my computer was going to crash so I went ahead and gave them authorization to access my computer. Six months later in August 2018, I received a telephone call from Easytech work (a man named Shari 855-888-1752), saying that their server had been corrupted and they wanted to refund my money back to my credit card. I was transferred to the billing manager named Shane Miller (302-217-6168) and he said in order for him to refund my money I would have to buy a gift card from Target and put the extra money from their Chase business account on the gift card. The reason for this was because the Chase business account only allow a certain amount per day to be withdrawn. I was foolish enough to give him access to my computer but he did not refund my money or fix the so-called problem and I did not buy a gift card. It was the most ridiculous way I ever heard of to refund someone’s money and I knew that I had been scammed.