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Another day, another article about a scam perpetrated by fraudsters. This one from the New York Times that starts with a retired lawyer having problems with his iPad and connecting to Microsoft outlook and wanting to get technical assistance. He googled Microsoft’s number and wouldn’t you know it, the number google provided was that of a scammer. To read the rest of the story go to:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/business/tech-support-scam-bank-fraud.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E8.0Dgr.Bku6U1c1S2Yo&smid=url-share
Same thing happened to me last year when I googled the customer service number for Frontier Airlines. As soon as I hung up I had the feeling I was scammed. Called credit card company to cancel charge. You can’t trust Google’s results for phone numbers.
Some scams are so obvious that I can’t understand how anyone would fall for them. This scam, however, is frightening in that the victim initiated the call himself. I can imagine this one sucking me in.
Thanks, Nick, for the article. I advise everyone to read it.
Whether you’re seeing a webpage in a pop-up, or you searched for the website yourself, always examine the website address before clicking on a link in the webpage or, as this article shows, calling a phone number listed in it.
I did an AI search for ways to identify a fake site. The examples of tricks to look out for would easily fill a post.