[geeks] Scam ware on MacOS and Linux

[hike]

It appears that Lionel has answered my question b this is new.
I reported this to Apple.

Any other suggestions as to where to report this expanded scam?

Thanks to Rich K. who sent articlebs link about teamviewer software and
itbs problems which greatly helped with the answer.



On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > On Jul 1, 2016, at 10:52 PM, hike <mh1272 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My question was basically, when did the b Microsoft Computer Centerb
> scam
> > morph to include Mac and Linux computers.
>
> Why do you think it has? Go back and re-read your initial post on this -
> the
> scammer was confused when your answers weren't what they expected (you used
> the words 'confused' and 'confusion')... If the script had decision trees
> as
> you speculate, why was the caller confused? The script would have told the
> caller how to handle each Mac/Linux-related response, instead you got
> Windows-specific suggestions every time you said you weren't running
> Windows.
>
> Every action the caller asked you to do indicated they thought you were on
> a
> Windows computer - 'Windows key' and asking you to install a Windows
> executable - I don't see in your story that the caller ever asked you to do
> something Mac/Linux-specific.
>
> I just don't see it from the story you shared, to be honest it seems like
> because the caller didn't say 'I give up, I don't have an answer for
> Mac/Linux
> computers' you assume they have a script that addresses Mac/Linux
> platforms...
> Maybe you left something out of your original story that led you to think
> scammers have added minority desktop OSes like Mac OS X and Linux, all I
> have
> is what you wrote.
>
> Anyway, to answer your question I had not, and still have not, heard of the
> 'Microsoft support scammers' going after Mac/Linux users.
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