What happens when you don't have a family member to provide tech support
While I occasionally grumble under my breath about remote tech support calls from relatives — I'd rather they were bugging me than talking with these miscreants.
Inside the US government’s war on tech support scammers
PCCare247 allegedly collected millions in ill-gotten fees. But the FTC fought back.
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I don’t have a family member, but I have Andrew The Computer Guy (not his company’s name – just what we call him), and I can’t imagine calling some off the wall company I’ve never heard of. But, I know people do. Glad to see the FTC is taking some kind of action.
@Ellie – A lot of folks I know simply trust the Internet — “If it’s in Google, it has to be okay, right? Isn’t there a law?”
Fortunately, I’ve gotten various family members trained to, if in doubt about some mysterious error message, pop-up, or unsolicited phone call is about, call me.