Someone called me from Techvedic and told me that my computer was infected with viruses and that they could fix it for me over the phone. I asked them how they knew this and they told me that they were affiliated with Dell Support, and like an idiot I believed them. They told me to go to my computer and to enter some codes at something called command prompt so I did and it showed me some sort of error log. They told me that for $199 they could log in remotely to fix it, so I gave them my credit card and let them do it. After about three hours of them working on my computer remotely I lost my internet connection and my tablet and laptop couldn't access my wireless anymore either! They said that for another $299 they would call me back the next day to help fix all the problems, but I thought something was amiss, so I contacted Geek Squad instead. When they came to my house to fix everything up they explained that it was some sort of telephone scam that I fell for, so after Geek Squad fixed everything back to normal I called the credit card company and they changed all my numbers but they got my money back.
0 comments