Here are some recent variations on the support scam theme. If you’re unfamiliar with the whole tech support plan phenomenon, I maintain a list of resources on the AVIEN resource page, which includes all the papers and all but the very earliest blog articles on the topic that I’ve written for ESET and other sites, along with some excellent articles from some of our friends in the industry. If you arewell acquainted with support scams, you may nevertheless find it useful – and even entertaining – to see what kinds of alert the scammers are currently using in the hope of luring potential victims into calling a call centre number, seeking help for problems they don’t actually have.
Tech Support Scams: Top of the Pop-Ups
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