Accounting software QuickBooks, by Intuit, is a popular target for India-based scammers, only rivaled for top spot by the classic Microsoft tech support scams.
Malwarebytes Labs researchers seen two main lures, both via Google ads: the first one is simply a website promoting online support for QuickBooks and shows a phone number, while the latter requires victims to download and install a program that will generate a popup, also showing a phone number. In both instances, that number is fraudulent. The fake QuickBooks popup was previously described in detail by eSentire and reveals how scammers are able to hijack the software functionality by generating bogus alert messages.
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Source: malwarebytes Labs
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