Last evening my sister was attempting to renew her McAfee virus software. What she told me was that somewhere through the process she thinks that she clicked on a link that was not a true link to the company and suddenly she was conversing with a person who claimed to be associated with McAfee using the name of "Tech in Time" and for $199 for an annual subscription that they could correct all of the horrible malware on her computer. At some point they called her and instructed her to provide access to the computer. she did this and could watch them working and at some point she begin to be suspicious and attempted to take a picture of the screen with her phone and before she could do this the screen went blank. When she explained all of this to me it sounded REALLY bad and that most likely some really shady people now had all of her personal information.
The purpose of my post is to find out if anyone has ever heard of this origination and do you think it is possible that they just wanted to rip her off for the $200 she paid.