Tech Support Phone Scams Surge
Summary: Krebs on Security reported a surge in unsolicited tech support scam calls from people posing as Microsoft employees, including one case where an 11-year-old was talked into typing numbers into the Run window and another where a Maine bank's customers were charged $199 by a company in India called NIAS E Business Solutions. The bank blocked and canceled the cards, but NIAS retried the charge at $99 and then attempted $120 via Western Union, and had registered one customer for MasterCard SecureCode without their knowledge.
Key Takeaway: The scammers reached an 86-year-old Florida woman through a remote access tool called AAMMY and got her asking her son for the admin password, and they knew the names and address of another commenter's elderly parents, indicating they were working from a list rather than cold luck.
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