Tech Support Scam - Undercover Investigation

October 2, 2012

Excerpted from an undercover buy between a scammer and an FTC investigator. The scammer claims the investigator’s computer has a problem, but the warning messages he shows her appear on most computers and don’t mean that the computer is infected.

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