Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
My Safari is freezes this morning and asked me to contact this number 1-800-656-8547. I contacted them and let the technician browsing my computer. She told me my computer security went off and I need to choose one of the 2 options she offered to fix this problem. I need to pay around USD$300 to get the problem fixed. I told her I need second opinion and stop the conversation.
Is this real Apple Store Services?
MacBook Air
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with some details of that happened, this way it'll make their life harder, at least temporarily.
This happened to me, but i only clicked on the pop-up "OK" to get rid of the pop-up. It just kept popping-up on my screen. I had to shut off my iPad and then start it again. I was returned to the opening page. I then went to the Safari settings and deleted all my history and cookies info.
My question is this: Did my clicking on the "OK" give the scammer access to my iPad? The pop-up acted just like a worm that I had years ago on my PC.
Hey Jude,
No. You're fine.
WHEW!!!! Praise the Lord and pass me my stylus! LOL
My wife's Safari froze up on her iphone and this same # popped up. She was fooled into thinking it was legit and actually got on to our desktop with this Indian Scammer and used LogMeIn to let this clown show her what was wrong with her iPhone. She also gave her email and date of birth. Then she got alarmed and woke me up and I got the dude's # and hung up.
Scammer opened up Terminal on our desktop and was able to draw some red arrows referring to some random #s to confuse my wife.
I reported these scumbags to LogMeIn. Have some free time at work so I'm calling these lowlifes back but there's an endless hold.
These were scammers. They had remote access to your computer. As a result, you need to erase the hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. There is no other way you can be guaranteed that they didn't so something to maintain remote access.
And with e-mail and date of birth compromised, maybe call your bank and credit card companies and see if they want to start some kind of identity-theft watch on your accounts.
1-800-656-8547
