Windows 10: New Windows 10 scam will encrypt your files

Not sure if this has been posted already but For those looking to email to get your Win 10 update, be careful...

Source: New Windows 10 scam will encrypt your files for ransom

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Edge infected with ransom ware virus

Are there any obvious file extensions appended to or with your encrypted data files?

Did you find any ransom notes?

Tech Support Scamming using
browser pop-up or web pages indicating "your computer is infected with ransomware",

“All Your Files Are Encrypted" and other
fake messages has become an increasing common scam tactic. Actual ransomware infections typically append an obvious extension to the end of encrypted filenames and demand a ransom payment by leaving ransom notes in every directory/affected folder where
data has been encrypted.

If there are no obvious extensions appended to your file names, no ransom notes and you data is not actually encrypted, then you most likely are dealing with a
fake browser ransomware scam.

 

WHERE CAN I REPORT RANSOMWARE AND MICROSOFT IMPERSONATORS

Actual ransomware usually will have obvious indications (signs of infection)...it typically
targets and encrypts data files so you cannot open them on your computer (and all connected drives at the time of infection), in most cases it appends an obvious extension to the end or beginning of encrypted filenames (although some variants do not), demands
a ransom payment by dropping ransom notes in every directory or affected folder where data has been encrypted and sometimes changes Windows wallpaper. Less obvious symptoms include adding or modifying registry entries and deletion of

Shadow Volume Copies so that you cannot restore your files from before they had been encrypted but leaves the operating system working so the victim can pay the ransom. Further,
when dealing with real ransomware, the cyber-criminals generally instruct their victims to contact them by email or website for decryption...they do not provide a phone number to call for assistance.

If there are no obvious extensions appended to your file names, no ransom notes, no demands of payment and your data is not actually encrypted, then you most likely are dealing with

fake ransomware, a
fake web page in your browser, some version of a

Tech Support Scam or something else.

• Fake Your computer is locked screenlocker
  

If you have been a victim of ransomware or a scam, you should contact your local Police Cyber-Division, local

FBI field office and file a report with the
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): Filing a Complaint.

• NoMoreRansom.org Report a Crime

• Report a technical support scam to Microsoft
• How to Report the Microsoft phone scam

You can also file a complaint with
ACC Scamwatch...see
Report a scam.