FTC Sending Refunds to Victims of Tech Support Scam

ronjor · Aug 1, 2019

August 1, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission is sending refund checks and PayPal payments totaling more than $802,000 to 12,140 consumers as part of a settlement with the operators of a St. Louis-based scam that tricked consumers into buying unnecessary technical support services.
Eligible consumers paid for tech support products and services from Global Access Technical Support, which also used the names Global sMind, Global S Connect, Yubdata Tech, and Technolive.
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guest · Feb 26, 2020

FTC Sends Refund Checks to Tech Support Scam Victims
February 25, 2020
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/pre...sends-refund-checks-tech-support-scam-victims

The Federal Trade Commission will begin sending refunds totaling more than $1.7 million to consumers who were victims of a tech support scam. The scam tricked consumers into buying tech support services by claiming their computers were infected with viruses, malware, or other security breaches.

The FTC, along with State of Connecticut and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleged that the perpetrators of the scheme, which operated under Click4Support and other names, used ads on search engines like Google and popups on websites. The ads and popups claimed to be from major tech companies such as Microsoft and Apple and tricked consumers into calling the defendants and buying tech support services that consumers did not need.

The FTC will begin providing 57,960 refunds averaging about $30 each to victims of the scheme.
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