opened my safari this morning with a message that my laptop could be hacked and that i need to call 647-360-4454 right away
I opened my mac air to this message this morning that my mac could have malware and virus. And to call this particular number which i posted on my heading. Lo and behold, my co-worker and i were just talking about it yesterday as she had to call this number and paid a huge amount to get her laptop fixed. I even told her that it could be a scam. Guess what? I did the same thing. I called that number, i had someone from "support" chatting with me and showing me on my laptop what was wrong. As the conversation unfolded, i asked her "Are you the official apple tech support?" She didn't really answer me but transferred me to tech support. This tech support guy then proceeded to tell me over the phone the things i needed to do- pay them $299 for fixing my macbook air and then give me a deal on security software online for $249 for 2 years. I told this guy to just fix my laptop and i will bring my laptop to the apple store and have them install security software. He, then, told me that i can't do that because apple won't do it and that only them can provide such service online. Long story short, i fixed the problem myself and now have OS X Yosemite upgrade. And i will be going to the apple store today to inform them of this incident.
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)