Yet another fraud: McAfee Tech Support Scam
Another Tech Support Scam associated with McAfee was reported last week after a user was asked to provide his credit card details & personal information to renew the anti-virus subscription. The scammers aim of stealing user’s sensitive information & earning illicit commissions on the subscription purchase. Tech Support Scams refers to communication frauds wherein a scammer claims to offer a licit technical support service & use scare tricks to make victims pay for unnecessary technical support services like fixing a manipulated device, platform, or antivirus problems. How a Tech Support Scam works? In the event, scammers call the victims & claim to be technical experts or representatives of the renowned companies like Apple or Microsoft. Other scammers bombard the victim’s screen with pop-up warnings of a detected virus or malware. After earning the trust of innocent users, they ask the users to install certain applications that provide them remote access to u...