“If it’s somebody either online or over the phone asking you to download a site, we would encourage the homeowner to hang up,” Burke said. The Sheriff’s Office reminds residents to be on high alert when someone is trying to walk them through navigating a website or downloading links. The potential victim became suspicious and hung up without downloading the site, Burke said.
Incidentally, there was a power outage the day a La Plata County resident was called, which lent legitimacy to the scam, he said. “The fear is that one would have their accounts hacked, their banking information and things like that,” Burke said. The victim is then asked to download an update from a website called .īut allows people to control a computer remotely, which then allows a person to access documents and passwords on that computer, said Chris Burke, spokesman with the Sheriff’s Office. Their site still is a bit wonky, but they seem to be upfront and visible towards the public. To my recollecton, in the early phase personal use was free and business had to pay a fee. your computer if you share the ID and password on UltraViewer to them. As a free alternative to TeamViewer, the Vietnam based Ultraviewer has been around for few years now. The so-called technician calls a household and explains the person needs to reboot his or her computer because of a power outage that occurred in the area. Previously, hackers used malicious TeamViewer app to target unsuspected users.
The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of a scam that took place last week in which someone claimed to be a CenturyLink technician, but was really trying to gain access to the potential victim’s computer.
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