Last year I wrote three articles on this site. In 2015, I also barely wrote three articles.
So even though I LOVE what I’ve created on this site, I know it has been stagnant.
So imagine my dismay when I began receiving messages from a website security company. There was a scan on my account and a security alert went off. There have been over 11+ messages, same guy, just different variations of the message.
Bottom line: I need to call him immediately to make sure we get things resolved so that there is no disruption in service.
The messages sound serious and scary.
But, rather than call back, my first instinct is to google:
xxxx website security company scam
Terrible stories…scam…fraud…malware extortion…people spending hundreds of dollars…sites closed down!!!
But you can’t always trust the internet. So I texted my brother, who knows all computer things. “SCAM” was his reply.
But how do I stop the calls? Do I just call them back? I don’t really know anything about website security. They can tell me anything, and I won’t know if it’s true or false. All I know is that I cannot spend any more money on a website where I’m only eking out THREE posts a year.
I don’t sell anything here. There are no pop-up ads or links to buy anything. I am just a writer, “trying to make my way to the next stop.” (p.s. I’m still working on that “by line”)
It’s so hard to tell what’s a scam and what’s real.
Is website security as serious as when the IRS left me three phone messages informing me that they were filing a lawsuit against me?
Last week, I got two emergency messages saying, “this is from Windows Microsoft your windows license key has been expired all services has been suspended on your computer.” Seriously, there were no pauses, just one run-on sentence.
If somehow my lack of action to this security alert really does ruin this website, then I’m going to take it as the final sign from God that this wasn’t for me.
But let’s see where this goes. I’ll continue to research this thing.
Any thoughts on how to proceed?