Scareware merchants are accused of fooling computer users by making them to click on fake alert pop-ups which say the local device is damaged and corrupted. This lawsuit is filed by Microsoft and Washington State Attorney General.

fake3 Lawsuit’s filed against Scam artists for frightening consumers for buying useless Software.

Scareware merchants influence the users to but the software which would treat the non-existent problem by providing fake security fixes.

Users are deceived to download a bogus scan of the computer and then fooled by making them buy the software which they do not need.

Branch Software and Alpha Red is the name of the Texas firm against whom the lawsuit has been filed.

The fake message that is seen in the pop-up is “CRITICAL ERROR MESSAGE! - REGISTRY DAMAGED AND CORRUPTED.”

fake2 Lawsuit’s filed against Scam artists for frightening consumers for buying useless Software.

During last six months there increase in the number of people who have faced such incidents. The scareware agents use the trick of ‘scare and scam’ for fetching money out of the users pockets.

In Windows operating system there is feature that allows network administrators send notices to the users. And feature is used incorrectly by these agents.

To avoid such cybercrimes, there should be awareness in public and stronger protection for online consumers.

fake1 Lawsuit’s filed against Scam artists for frightening consumers for buying useless Software.

A survey revealed that despite been told that certain messages were fake, users hit the OK button 63% of the time. Hence, one should be careful of such pop-ups.