In October of 2017, the FTC and the State of Alabama settled with multiple tech support companies<\/a> who were scamming victims out of hundreds of dollars.\u00a0 Now, less than a year later, the FTC settled with another individual tied to two more Indian-based technical support scam companies.<\/p>\n Parmjit Singh Brar was the operator of Genius Technologies and Avangatee Services.\u00a0 Although, these companies were not entirely legitimate.\u00a0 Brar was providing substantial support and assistance to an Indian-based tech support scheme.\u00a0 Brar’s involvement included receiving and processing customer payments and establishing and maintaining business accounts.\u00a0 Due to this involvement, Brar was fined $136,000 and is permanently banned from providing any form of technical support services.<\/p>\n But what do these scams exactly look like?\u00a0 The Tribune India stated<\/a>,<\/p>\n “As part of the scheme, Indian telemarketers contacted consumers by calling them or using Internet pop-up ads disguised as security alerts to trick consumers into buying bogus tech support services, according to the complaint.\u00a0 The telemarketers claimed to be from well-known tech companies and warned consumers that their computers were at risk. If the telemarketers persuaded consumers to give them remote access to consumers\u2019 computers, the telemarketers purported to find a serious cyber-threat and claimed they would install expensive and high-quality security software to resolve the problem in exchange for a substantial sum of money.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It should if you’ve seen PC Matic’s most recent television commercial (seen below), or visited the\u00a0Fake Virus Scam website<\/a>.<\/p>\nSound familiar?<\/h4>\n