Geek Squad Scam

Risk Level: Critical

Geek Squad Tech services, claiming your annual PC subscription has been renewed and reactivated.

How it works

Usually a scammer sends an email, a text message or calls your phone and pretends to be some organization, company or person you trust. Scammers gain access to your confidential information, like social security numbers, date of birth and then use it to apply for credit cards, loans and financial accounts. Typically, the victim receives an email that appears to be from a credible, real bank or credit card company, with links to a website and a request to update account information. But the website and email are fakes, made to look like the real website.

Warning signs

EXAMPLE:
From: James Peters <rajbharrajeshrajbhar15@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2025 10:31 AM
To: Your email
Subject: Your Invoice #4717345 Subscription Reinitiated Automatically



Receipt Date: Friday, May 02, 2025

Receipt id: waf5097ti42066yd

Customer Support Hotline: +1 818 804 4070



Hi Your name



Your subscription to Anti-virus scan has been renewed through your GeekSquad account for the year 4-Year The total amount of 594.99 will be charged within 6 hours. Kindly check your billing history for details



Renewal Reference



Subscription Code: waf5097ti42066yd

Service: Anti-virus scan - Abc

Email on Record: your email address

Amount Due: 594.99



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How to avoid it

This is NOT from Best Buy and has nothing to do with their Geek Squad service. Do NOT call the numbers in the email. Just ignore the email.