The article states it’s scammers posing as Best Buy’s Geek Squad or Microsoft employees offering support. It’s not new. The same thing happened with AppleCare several years ago.
They use spoofed ID calls or emails to trick the victim into thinking they’re the real deal. Once they get the victim to enable remote access, they take what they want then charge the victim as if they had helped them.
I get that, but what I’m saying is that these people were conned by falling for the idea of Geek Squad being something worth paying for in the first place. So they’re conning someone who was already conned.
The article states it’s scammers posing as Best Buy’s Geek Squad or Microsoft employees offering support. It’s not new. The same thing happened with AppleCare several years ago.
They use spoofed ID calls or emails to trick the victim into thinking they’re the real deal. Once they get the victim to enable remote access, they take what they want then charge the victim as if they had helped them.
I get that, but what I’m saying is that these people were conned by falling for the idea of Geek Squad being something worth paying for in the first place. So they’re conning someone who was already conned.