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Gail1202
Aspirant
Mar 17, 2020

Call from Netgear today

Hello, I received a call today from someone saying they are with Netgear support and they found that my Netgear is trying to be hacked and that could be the reason my internet has been slow. They sai...
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Gail1202
Aspirant
Mar 17, 2020

Yeah I was feeling it was a scam but what got me is how the person who called me knew I even had a Netgear modem/router in the first place, very scary. 

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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 17, 2020
netgear is one of the largest market shares. Its a fairly good guess if they're trying to scam someone.