{"id":42191,"date":"2014-05-25T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/what-happens-when-you-dont-have-a-family-member-to-provide-tech-support.html"},"modified":"2014-05-27T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:57:13","slug":"what-happens-when-you-dont-have-a-family-member-to-provide-tech-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/what-happens-when-you-dont-have-a-family-member-to-provide-tech-support.html","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you don’t have a family member to provide tech support"},"content":{"rendered":"
What happens when you don't have a family member to provide tech support<\/b><\/p>\n

While I occasionally\u00a0grumble under my breath about remote tech support calls from relatives — I'd rather they were bugging me than talking with these<\/i> miscreants.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Inside the US government\u2019s war on tech support scammers<\/a>
\n PCCare247 allegedly collected millions in ill-gotten fees. But the FTC fought back.\n <\/p>\n

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What happens when you don't have a family member to provide tech support While I occasionally\u00a0grumble under my breath about remote tech support calls from relatives — I'd rather they were bugging me than talking with these miscreants.\ufeff Inside the US government\u2019s war on tech support scammers PCCare247 allegedly collected millions in ill-gotten fees. 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