Have you recently received a suspicious email that appears to have come from Geek Squad? Does it say that you’ve placed an order for a one-year subscription for Geek Squad or that your annual membership has been renewed? Whatever it says, there’s a very high chance that it’s a scam! Read on to learn more!
Geek Squad Email Scams 2022
For the last several weeks we’ve been noticing a massive increase in the number of Geek Squad email scams circulating. What’s happening is that scammers are impersonating Geek Squad and sending out all kinds of bogus emails, hoping to trick people into parting with money and personal information.
The vast majority of them claim that the victim has renewed their annual Geek Squad subscription — for hundreds of dollars. Below are some examples.
As you can see, the designs and layouts of all these scams are completely different, and there are lots and lots of others too — far too many to include in this post.
The scammers’ instructions also differ greatly. Some ask the victims to phone a bogus number (presumably with a scammer waiting on the other end of the line), some ask them to visit a malicious link that will prompt them for personal and financial information, and some ask them to reply to the original email.
Regardless, whatever the scammers ask you to do, don’t do it! They only have bad…
