Google Chrome Tech Support Scam Is Back to Steal Money from Users

Many people rely on tech support from various companies to help them with their problems whenever they arise. However, there is currently a new scam trend where the perpetrators impersonate tech support on Google Chrome in order to scam users out of their money They do so by convincing people to pay in order to have a problem fixed, which does not even exist.

Very few people are immune to the jolting effects of suddenly seeing a huge pop-up window on their screen that contains text in red while using Google Chrome. Even professionals can still be victims of reactionary decisions when presented with such circumstances, PC Mag recently reported.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what internet scammers have been using to trick people into giving them money for weeks now. One of the most disturbing facts about it, however, is how it stems from a bug on the Google Chrome browser.

By abusing the programming interface window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob, the scammers are basically able to crash a user’s browser. Once it does, the perpetrators would then move in by making a warning pop-up appear. The sole purpose of this pop-up is to scare the user enough to immediately contact the number presented by the window. This would be a huge mistake.

Once the user calls the number, they immediately become the victim of fake tech support campaigns. They’ll be paying for issues that the perpetrators caused. This isn’t the first time that this particular problem has come up, either.

It first appeared in February of this year, Express.co.uk reported, and was supposed to have been fixed with a Google Chrome update a few weeks later. It seems that the fix didn’t really take effect since the vulnerability is back and users are once again falling victim to the scam. At this point, the best thing that a user can really do is to ignore the pop-up window and contact the genuine Google Chrome tech support.