COMPUTER SCAMS & SCARE TACTICS

 by Personal Computer Services Its Monday, 9:30am and you sit down with the morning’s second cup of coffee and push the start button on your computer, your window into the world and all its goings-on. You open your favorite browser where your usual news site is bookmarked, inwardly anticipating what catastrophe will await its front page and BLAM! Everything freezes, and a blood-red screen is before you…it’s from “Microsoft”! “DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER! CALL US IMMEDIATELY! WARNING! WARNING! YOUR COMPUTER IS IN DANGER! THE END IS NEAR! CALL US! CALL US NOW!” Scary stuff! Human nature and kindergarten training tells us to follow these instructions, so without further ado you reach for the phone and call the number that “Microsoft” has given. Within minutes, access to your computer is in a stranger’s hands. Even before the stranger talks about how much it will cost to fix the problem and suspicion sets in, it is already too late.  It’s not...Read More >