FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Scammers have upped their game to take advantage of the growing popularity of streaming services during the pandemic. (Dreamstime/TNS)
Roku setup, activation scam doesn’t include cold calls, bogus links: What to know
Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press
All she wanted to do was replace her old Roku device to stream movies and TV shows onto her new TV during the pandemic. If things worked out, she even hoped to use the set-up to teach remote classes at a local community college.
Instead, Maureen McDonald ended up dishing out $189.99 to scam operators.
The Roku scam is as nasty as they come and one that many consumers, including me, never heard about or paid much attention to in the past. Yet as streaming services grew in popularity during the pandemic, scammers upped their game.