Have you received an urgent email from the Geek Squadron from the Technical Support Company, which charges an exorbitant amount of money for a subscription renewal?
It is a scam. Email is not really Geek Squad, which is a legitimate business owned by the electronic retail chain Best Buy. And although scammers love that you seem to minutes from a massive credit card charge, they really can’t charge you. The large amount established in the email is there to scare it … that is, unless you respond and give cybercriminals the information they want.
Then, let’s be clear: Do not respond to these emails from Estafa Geek Squad. Ignore them. Do not get involved with the scammer.
What is the Geek squad scam?
False subscription or payment scams have been quite popular in recent months. A growing scam in this line is the EZ PASS TOLL ROAD TEXT SCAMwhich tries to deceive the objectives to think that a payment on a toll road should. Victims pay a false invoice or deliver valuable personal information trying to “correct” the fine.
The Geek squad scam is quite similar. The scammer sends a false invoice by email to an unsuspecting target. The bill is apparently for a subscription to Geek Squad technical support services. Sometimes, the bill will be for general support or for a specific but vague product as a “network shield” or “computer protection”.
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However, there is a common strategy that these Geek squad scammers use: the price of the service is usually an exorbitant amount. It is not uncommon for these emails to inform users to be charged in the range of $ 300 to $ 500 for a renewal of this non -existent subscription service.
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The price of the false bill is quite useful. An objective will see that they are about to receive a large sum of money and immediately communicate with the phone number provided in the hope of stopping the position. This is so much a common technique between scammers and a dead raffle: be careful with all emails and texts that try to create an emergency sensation. Legitimate companies will not use this type of pressure tactics.
As with the toll scams, there is another layer here: some victims will communicate with the scammer to stop the erroneous load. If they are customers of Geek Squad, they will communicate with the number with the belief that they are talking to Real Geek Squad. If they are not, scammers will try to deceive them to reveal numbers of credit cards, social security numbers or some other valuable information.
Geek Squad’s scam has been circling for some years, which means that it must be quite successful for scam artists because they continue to use this strategy. In recent months, there have been an increase in local news information In the scam, particularly in New York and Wisconsin, so it is in their garden.
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How to avoid being scammed
While scammers have probably been raising cash with their Geek squad scam, fortunately, it is also very easy to avoid being cheated.
The scammer is based on his goal to see the false invoice and contact them through a telephone link or number included in email. Once the victim gets in touch, the scammer gets involved in basic social engineering strategies to deceive the objective to give them private information. The victims also reported that the scammer convinced them to install software that allowed them to remotely control the target computer.
It simply does not get involved with an email supposedly from the Geek squad. Do not respond to email. Do not click on a link in email. Do not call the phone number that appears in email.
If you are a Geek Squad client and should communicate with the company, go to Official Geek Squad website in Best Buy, which provides a real number for legitimate contact.
In conclusion: If you ask if that email of Geek Squad is real, suppose it is not.
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