Scareware

[RayC]

I just read the newsletter from today (1/25/18) about Malware. I receive what the article describes as Scareware almost weekly. When it happens I make sure to open my Malwarebytes Premium software and run a scan. Nothing comes up and the Scareware remains until I close and restart my browser. Sometimes I need to restart the computer itself. The Scareware is typically a full screen message that I have a bad virus, etc., and must contact Microsoft to clear it up. Of course Inever call, but am wondering why I continue to see this despite having the Premium version and running scans often. Any help would be appreciated. By the way, please consider me a novice user if giving me a 'fix'. If it gets technical I have trouble following it. Thanks for whatever help anyone out there can be.

[David H. Lipman]

Similar to these ?

I have created a ¹series of videos generated from these fraud sites for the purposes of recognition and education.  They are all  videos from real web sites.  ALL are FRAUDS.

All these have one thing in common and they have nothing to do with any software on your PC.  They are all nefarious web sites meant to defraud you of money. The objective is to, falsely, goad you to make the phone call and pay for some service contract for an incident that never happened.  From there they may continue to charge your Credit Card for other services, remote into your computer and do real damage and/or exfiltrate your personal data and they may use the information they obtain from you to commit additional frauds.

MalwareScam.wmv
MalwareScam-1.wmv
MalwareScam-2.wmv
MalwareScam-3.wmv
MalwareScam-4.wmv
MalwareScam-5.wmv
MalwareScam-6.wmv

I have also created a PDF ScreenShow of a myriad of FakeAlert screens - FakeAlert-Screens.pdf


Reference:   
US FBI PSA - Tech Support Scam

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1.  Also located at "My Online Security" - Some videos of typical tech support scams