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Tech Support Scams Inflicted Nearly $150 Million in Losses in 2020, IC3 Reveals

23
Mar
2021

Despite newly created opportunities for fraudsters to rip-off unsuspecting citizens during the ongoing pandemic, tech support scams inflicted nearly $150 million in reported losses in 2020. According to the 2020 Internet Crime Report, the FBI’s Internet Crime Center received 15,421 fraudulent tech support complaints from victims in 60 countries – a 171% increase from 2019. […]

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Tech support scammer follow-up

28
Jun
2016

This post is a sequel to Tech support scammers using Winlogon. As we have found after writing that post there are many variants of this scam. I want to go into some more detail about the last one. Where the first variants all showed you a screen asking for a product key and some buttons […]

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