![]() Your system is infected with viruses, spywares and pornwares. This page comes with a voiceover that churns out a whole list of falsehoods about your Mac, and threatens dire consequences from Apple if you don’t act (words in boldface are incorrect in the audio file itself): Ĭritical alert from Apple Support. Indeed, if you scroll down on the page run by the crooks, you’ll see it is stolen outright from Apple’s official pages – the only difference, surprisingly, is that the crooks have neatened up the layout slightly, avoiding the ugly orphaned word should on a line of its own: (In fact, in at least one case, the scammers turned out to be living a double life – Microsoft Gold Partners by day con artists by night.)īut in this case, the scammers have unashamedly stolen Apple’s name and brand, claiming to be the Apple Support Center: That distinction made no difference in practice – fake support scams are based on a pack of lies anyway – but seemed to matter greatly to the scammers, as though a tame lawyer had advised them that the ramifications would be worse if they actually claimed to be Microsoft. In old-school Windows technical support scams, the scammers often made an effort to avoid actually stating that they worked for Microsoft – they’d say things along the lines of being a team “working with Windows” rather than “a division of Microsoft”.
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