Nassau County deputies warn of internet scam targeting people across the country - FirstCoastNews.com WTLV-WJXX

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Nassau County Sheriff's Office is warning people astir a scam targeting radical crossed the country.

Deputies accidental scammers volition telephone and assertion to enactment for Microsoft oregon different machine company, and effort to get you to log into your machine to “fix” the contented you have. 

This scam involves them tricking you to instal malware, oregon malicious software, that tin bargain your accusation and identity. 

This tin pb to your wealth and slope relationship accusation being stolen.

Four Ways To Protect Yourself From Phishing from the FTC:

Protect your accounts by utilizing multifactor authentication. Some accounts connection other information by requiring 2 oregon much credentials to log successful to your account. This is called multifactor authentication. The other credentials you request to log successful to your relationship autumn into 3 categories:

Multi-factor authentication makes it harder for scammers to log successful to your accounts if they bash get your username and password.

 Protect your information by backing it up. Back up the information connected your computer to an outer hard thrust oregon successful the cloud. Back up the information connected your phone, too.