{"id":58613,"date":"2018-01-19T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=58613"},"modified":"2018-04-06T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:29:49","slug":"pc-matic-phone-number-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/pc-matic-phone-number-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake PC Matic Phone Number Published Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>BEWARE: Scammers Post Fake PC Matic Phone Number<\/h3>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time scammers began targeting PC Matic users.\u00a0 In the middle of 2017, there was a scam going around where<a href=\"https:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/2017\/05\/24\/scammers-portray-pc-matic\/\"> hackers would call PC Matic users<\/a> claiming to be our support team.\u00a0 Now there is a website, www.pcmaticsupportnumber.com, that is scamming our customers into paying for fraudulent technical support.\u00a0 This website has since been taken down, but the phone 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