TheGoodDoctor
Computer security enthusiast with a white-hot hatred of liars and thieves.
Tell your friends, family and anyone else who strikes up a conversation with you about the kinds of shit these scammers will do.
Tell them about the kinds of shit they’ll say to you about their “secure servers” receiving alerts from your PC.
Tell them about how a real antivirus alert will never lock up your whole screen and demand you call an 800 number to remove the threat.
“A real antivirus alert will either pop up in the corner to quietly tell you that it caught something, or it will pop up with a thing for you to click to get rid of the threat. Sometimes the antivirus program might want you to restart the PC after it catches something, but it will never force you to call an 800 number to get rid of a threat it catches”
Then you can also tell them.
“When a paid antivirus program runs out of time, it will quietly popup in the corner to tell you that it’s no longer protecting your PC, sometimes it might even say “renew now and get X-number of percent off!” but a paid antivirus that’s legit and on the level will never “block” your computer to keep it protected, or whatever bullshit the scam popups will say now.”
You may also even want to google image search for what a fake virus alert looks like on your phone or any other portable device you carry with you to show them what to be on the lookout for.
My goal is to make all of these facts about scammers common knowledge, so that no one will ever fall for this crap. After all, an illegal operation like a fake tech support scam very well could be funding any number of illegal activities that we never see here in the developed world.
Submit scam domains you discover to antivirus companies that will accept reports from people.
Here’s just a few:
https://www.avira.com/en/analysis/submit
https://www.bitdefender.com/submit/
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/support/report-unsafe-site-guest