IT's no secret that older people are not always tech savvy. Recently, the FBI busted a group of scammers who cumulatively tricked the elderly out of more than a million dollars. And to make it even worse, they were posing as tech support professionals, giving IT pros a bad name. What a bunch of jerks!
According to Bleeping Computer:
“Most of the victims paid amounts between $225 and $799, for fake multi-year service plans. To seal the deal, the tech support scams sometimes said that the attacks were coming from Russian hackers. One of the victims in the complaint was scammed for over $136,600 through dozens of calls from the tech support scammers. The story was that her computers had ‘network system security’ and ‘networking hardware’ problems.”
To create the $136,600 sum, the scammers would call her every few weeks. In total, she wrote them 18 checks. That works out to about $7600 per check.
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