As if internet pop-up windows aren’t annoying enough, a series of suits by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi claim tech-support companies used them to dupe thousands of consumers into buying unnecessary anti-malware products.
The complaints claim the companies used fraudulent pop-up warnings to exploit consumer fears of hackers, viruses and other IT security threats, to trick them into believing their computers had become infected or unusable.
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