Scam alert?

[realspeed]

I had pop up on my computer a notice saying I had exceeded my storage limit to the cloud account and wanted me to buy a larger storage. Strangely I have not subscribed or have an account to cloud on the internet.

 

[Tringa]

Similar to the one I have seen many times in the last couple of months which is warning me my PC is at risk because my McAfee subscription has expired and I should click on a link in the email - the McAfee subscription I have never had.

Dave

 

[JohnMcL7]

Could you see the source of the pop up? Windows by default does try to get you to sync to Onedrive and I've seen some people caught out by this not even realising they've done it. If it's not that and instead some scam pop-up, I'd have a look into where it's coming from to make sure there's not some malware on your system.

 

[Tori_T]

If you were surfing the web at the time, it could've been a browser pop-up from a compromised website (or a dodgy ad server) crafted to look like an operating system dialogue box.

 

[Nikon f1.8]

Ah
the joys of Windows

 

[DemiLion]

Ahh.

The ignorance of those that believe that the Mac operating system is any less vulnerable to malware.

 

[DemiLion]

Wrong. You have to be careful with any OS, but MacOS and Linux are not targetted anywhere near as often as Windows.

Eh? There was a massive attack on the Mac OS last week. You are living in cloud cuckoo land.

 

[Cockney]

It's a dodgy cookie. Clear your cookies and move on.
If it locks your pc hold the power button down to force shutdown, reboot then clear cookies.

 

[DemiLion]

IUt's an operating system. Nothing more, nothing less.

They are equally efficient and equally fallible.

 

[Cockney]

And you sound like you are butt-hurt because Windows is a merde OS that serves ads. Go down to Boots and get some salve for that.

You use IOS and you DON'T think you're the product? C'mon.

 

[DemiLion]

I'm not butt hurt in the slightest. Enjoy your delusion.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

At the end of the day it's the user fault or bare minimum complete ignorance regardless of the system. Hands up if you use chrome virus, never bothered to install ad blocker, but happily wave through security checks for some random malware, and to top it off leave all optional ads enabled. Good luck if you have this attitude

 

[realspeed]

found out the cause, it was sync to another device which I haver now disconnected. thank you all for your help