Ammyy (sometimes called AMMYY) was a company which created the
remote desktop software called Ammyy Admin.
[1] It was often used by scammers who cold-call homes to try to gain access to their computer.
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Since 2011 the company has issued warnings about these scammers who abuse their software against its intended purposes. [5]
!!! If you receive a phone call claiming to be from 'Microsoft' or someone claiming to work on their behalf, telling you that you have a virus on your computer or some errors which they will help you to fix via Ammyy Admin, it is definitely a scam.
Ammyy (sometimes called AMMYY) was a company which created the
remote desktop software called Ammyy Admin.
[1] It was often used by scammers who cold-call homes to try to gain access to their computer.
[2]
[3]
[4]
Since 2011 the company has issued warnings about these scammers who abuse their software against its intended purposes. [5]
!!! If you receive a phone call claiming to be from 'Microsoft' or someone claiming to work on their behalf, telling you that you have a virus on your computer or some errors which they will help you to fix via Ammyy Admin, it is definitely a scam.