844-634-6872

A pop-up notice on my computer, headed by the Apple Safari logo, froze my internet service with the warning I've copied below. Instead of calling the 844 number, I called Apple at its toll-free 800 number and was advised the notice did NOT come from Apple and apparently was designed to trick me into calling and giving them whatever personal info they were seeking.

Here's the fake notice:

Critical Security Warning! Your Mac is infected with a malicious virus attack.

Please contact tech support at 1-844-634-6872 and provide error code WBACK7917 to scan and resolve any potential threats to your personal and financial information, which was being tracked by suspicious connection.

Consequently we are performing additional security checks to verify the source of the attack and have halted all your system resources in order to prevent any additional damage to your system and information.

Please call customer service at 1-844-634-6872 to resolve issues.

same as above they are using multiple toll free numbers
such as 855-666-8857, 855-832-4110 and california number 661-748-0240 beware

the same thing happened to me. I did 't realize it was a scam until I was offered security protection for $199.00.

I too have had my internet service frozen by this phishing attack. Can you tell me how to free it up?

I just got the same message on my computer its a scan when you call the number, when I manually shut down the computer and restarted it everything was fine....

it was www.homesecurityatease.com virus warning on my computer

Hold down Shift, Option, and the Apple key while restarting Safari, the warning goes away (mac).

I have also gotten this message. How can I be sure that nothing has been corrupted on my computer? I went to the actual website, and homesecurityatease.com is definitely NOT an Apple business.

This just happened to me. I called and when they wanted me to enter some code on some weird site so I hung up and they tried calling back. My computer is safe though right???

After a virus popped up on my screen, they gave me the number above to call. Pretty sure it was a scam