I've posted about this before, those guys who are using a very similar name to my own business that are scamming customers all over the US and Canada. "America Geeks" or aka "Geek Americas"
Today I received yet another phone call from a gentleman in Canada who had been taken for over $4,000 from these scum bags. While on the phone though we talked a while and my wife did some more digging into them...
First of all, they no longer have a live website, nor facebook. They have been taken down. The Better Business Bureau shows them as OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!!
SO....
This means that an EX employee, or possibly rogue employees have taken it upon themselves to use the famous "We're out of business, and want to refund your money" scam.
In this scam they connect to your computer and have you log into your bank account....(This should be a HUGE flag to ANY ONE, but sadly they get their victims this far in many cases)
Then they use the victim's OWN savings account and transfer money into checking. In this case if they claim to be refunding you 400, they will transfer from savings 4,000. And then the guy will freak out and tell you he's made a horrible mistake and that his job is on the line and that he's got a family to feed.
They then ask the victim, to RUSH to any place that sells gift cards and return the "overpayment" of the 3,500 by buying and then reading the card numbers to him over the phone.
This is the victim giving their own money happily over to the scammer.
Folks....If your IT company came about because you got a popup on your screen telling you to call them...think about it...You got led to them by their own virus which then pointed you to the scammer to "fix" his own virus. Do you really want to do business with an IT company that scammed you to be their customer to begin with?
It's so sad.
~ike