Many of us have so many subscriptions — to Netflix, magazines, and smartphone protection plans — it’s tough to remember them all.
Scammers are now taking advantage of that, hoping to get us to “renew” a costly subscription we don’t have.
Heather Wolfe is a parent who works in the IT computer business, so she is as savvy as they come.
But the other day, she was almost fooled.
“I got an email,” she said, “and it said you are renewing your subscription, and I said I don’t remember ever having a subscription.”
The very official-looking notice said she was being charged $400 to renew her Geek Squad Security Services from Best Buy.
She called the number.
“I don’t want to renew it,” she said, “I don’t have it. What computer is it for?”
The man on the phone, however, said she could cancel… if she let him download a program onto her laptop.
“He said I had to run something on my own computer to open a ticket to cancel it.”
Luckily – she said no, which is a good thing because it is a scam.
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But these are so easy to fall for that’s because many of us are so busy and because we have so many subscriptions, we can’t keep track of them all.
Scammers use popular company names
Cyber-security expert and host of the popular podcast “What the Hack,” Adam Levin says scammers regularly impersonate tech support from companies such as Apple, Microsoft, McAfee, or Norton.
“Just don’t assume that every time you get a renewal…
