#Omnitech customer service software#

If someone called you out of the blue, claiming to be a doctor, and started asking you medical questions, would you answer him? If he then told you that you had some illness you didn't know you have - even though you have no symptoms and feel fine - would you pay him money to 'cure' you?

The scammers are generally intimidating and use scare tactics like telling victims that if they do not pay for support and deal with these non-existent issues immediately, they will lose data, attackers will get their personal and financial information, or their PC will crash completely. Instead of a strange pop-up message alerting you about a malware infection you don't really have, a 'support technician' calls you on the phone. How does a tech support scam work? It's sort of an old-school version of a fake antivirus scam.

#Omnitech customer service software#

After granting Omnitech access to their PCs for the fraudulent tech support, some victims had malicious software installed, such as password stealing utilities that can compromise the user's personal and financial information. As if that's not bad enough, Omnitech actually introduced security issues that weren't previously there in some instances.