Security Alert 1-808-518-4601 - 09/26/15 07:03 PM
Today I installed a new hard drive on an old laptop and began the process of working my way though a bunch of updates. (Snow Leopard is the last time I had an OS on disk.)
After the initial install, I thought I'd do a quick check to see how things were working so I opened Safari and went to a couple of sites that I know very well.
Suddenly I got a very official looking pop-up (very close to the look of an Apple pop-up) with a dire message that my IP address was in peril from two different sources. The message was accompanied by a woman reading the message, in a somewhat panicky tone and urging me to phone the number provided.
Three things set off alarm bells. I could not get rid of the alert messages without doing a forced shutdown (ding). And, two, the person on the phone said they were from Blah-Blah company, contracted to do Apple Support (ding, ding).
Then he said I was infected and that he'd have to take over my machine to find the problem (ding, ding, ding).
A quick google of 1-808-518-4601 shows it's a pretty dangerous scam that's caught a few people. Don't you wish life was like those cartoons where one party reaches through the phone and strangles the other?
After the initial install, I thought I'd do a quick check to see how things were working so I opened Safari and went to a couple of sites that I know very well.
Suddenly I got a very official looking pop-up (very close to the look of an Apple pop-up) with a dire message that my IP address was in peril from two different sources. The message was accompanied by a woman reading the message, in a somewhat panicky tone and urging me to phone the number provided.
Three things set off alarm bells. I could not get rid of the alert messages without doing a forced shutdown (ding). And, two, the person on the phone said they were from Blah-Blah company, contracted to do Apple Support (ding, ding).
Then he said I was infected and that he'd have to take over my machine to find the problem (ding, ding, ding).
A quick google of 1-808-518-4601 shows it's a pretty dangerous scam that's caught a few people. Don't you wish life was like those cartoons where one party reaches through the phone and strangles the other?