Luckily, she didn’t fall for it, and she hung up on the person. “The app said ‘remote control.’ That just stuck with me because I thought something’s wrong,” she said. The scammer asked her to download AnyDesk. Jamie Sparks reached out about a scam involving an online return.
Timpani said the person was able to access her bank account, which led to a bigger scheme that ended up costing her $23,000. “And I didn’t know that that was going to give him remote access to my computer, but it did.” “And then he starts telling me to do all these steps on my computer, and one of them was to go to AnyDesk,” she said. Karla Timpani says she was a victim, falling for a scam involving gift cards. Scam victims are noticing a trend: hackers manipulating the popular computer software called AnyDesk.ĪnyDesk is a legitimate software program that allows someone to take control of your computer if you need help with a technology issue.
