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About
Common Internet Scams
Cryptocurrency
Online Dating Or Merely Dating Adjacent
Politics
Recovery Scams
Scam Awareness: Concepts
Scam Awareness: Tools
Timeshares
Technology
Employment And Small Business Topics
Financial Literacy
This web page will go over a technical support scam that recently appeared on a friend's computer.
My goal is to spread awareness of scams, not to promote a given scam, so I will present the takeaways below BEFORE I introduce the scam.
The important takeaways for anyone reading this web page are:
Nothing good can come from cooperating with the scammer.
This particular scam's pop-up window has the text below:
Microsoft Defender found some infected files but not able to remove it because of
the group policies permissions. Please Scan now to remove it manually.
The following bullet points are NOT what I desire, but they ARE what I expect: