Hello, we are calling from Windows and your computer looks like it is infected. Our Microsoft Certified Technician can fix it for you. Sound familiar? Whether you have just been scammed or simply want to find out more on the topic, you have come to the right place. Tech support scams are a million-dollar industry and have been around since 2008. Every single day, innocent people are tricked into spending hundreds of dollars on non-existent computer problems. There is no sign of these scams slowing down despite severalactions taken by the Federal Trade Commission. Perhaps even worse, companies right here in North America are now pulling the same tricks and taking advantage of existing and prospect customers replying to online ads. Since we wrote our very first blog post on the subject and subsequent articles (A look behind the curtain, Turning the tables), we've received much feedback and many people have shared their own experiences. We believe tech support scams are despicable and need to be exposed for the greater good. The purpose of this page is to gather all the information we have collected over time into one place which you can use as a goto resource when you need it.
Cold calls from fake Microsoft (etc) agents
Usually from India and operating out of boiler rooms, these scammers call people in the U.S, Canada, the UK, and Australia whom they find in the phone directory. The scam is straightforward: pretend to be calling from Microsoft, gain remote control of the machine, trick the victim with fake error reports and collect the money. If you ever get a call from a Microsoft or Windows tech support agent out of the blue, the best thing to do is simply hang up. Scammers like to use VoIP technology so their actual number and location are hidden. Their calls are almost free which is why they can do this 24/7. As per Microsoft: "There are some cases where Microsoft will work with your Internet service provider and call you to fix a malware-infected computer-such as during the recent cleanup effort begun in our botnet takedown actions. These calls will be made by someone with whom you can verify you already are a customer. You will never receive a legitimate call from Microsoft or our partners to charge you for computer fixes."
Toll-Free Numbers (TFN) for fraudulent tech support companies
Located in India but also in the US, these companies heavily advertise on popular search engines as well as websites with high traffic. People call them for assistance and get fooled with similar techniques employed by Indian cold callers. Another source for these companies comes from some of their existing customers or customers of parent companies sent to them. The remote technician upsells the customer who only came to activate their software but ends up forking hundreds of dollars on "Windows support". If you decide to call in for remote computer assistance, you need to be very careful about which company you are going to deal with. Simply picking the top ad on a search results page could end very badly. Unfortunately, the company or technician being from the US is not a guarantee for honest service. Many businesses in the US are using dirty tricks to take advantage of people, with the unsavvy and elderly as their prime targets. If you don't feel comfortable doing this online, brick and mortar computer repair shops are a good alternative. Fake pop ups claiming your computer is infected (reminding of FakeAV) are a good way for scammers to reel in innocent victims:
A new trend shows that crooks are using phishing scams as a ruse to get people to phone in, not only stealing their credentials but also claiming their account was suspended:
Remote access
The ‘technician' requests to have remote access to your computer (taking control of it) and may use one of the following programs. Note that these applications are perfectly legitimate and used daily for good reasons. However, it is important to remember that if you run remote login software you are effectively giving a complete stranger total control of your computer.
>> Report fraudulent use of remote login software. There are too many other applications that are used for remote support to list them all here. They pretty much do the same thing which is to provide direct access to your computer from anywhere in the world.
Tricks of the trade
Once logged into your computer, the remote technician will attempt to trick you by fabricating errors or even viruses on your computer. They like to use the default Windows tools and turn them against you, hoping you'll get scared and follow up their directions. The Event Viewer (eventvwr)
even on Windows 8: "These errors are viruses or serious damage to the backend of your PC. If not taken care of immediately, you will lose your computer."
The Event Viewer is an application that aggregates all of the log files from your computer. It is traditionally used by system administrators to diagnose certain errors. However, most events are harmless notifications.
The System Configuration Utility (msconfig)
"There are many programs that are stopped, indicating some serious damage to the backend of your computer and poor performance."
It is perfectly normal to have services that are stopped. In fact, you can actually speed up the boot time of your PC by disabling unneeded start up programs.
The Task Manager (CPU ‘spikes')
"These spikes are dangerous for your PC's health. Just like your heart rate, they should not go up. Your PC could suffer some irreparable damage."
When your PC is active, you will see the CPU usage go up and down constantly. What would not be good is if the CPU was pegged at 100% utilization all of the time. This is not the case here.
The erratic CPU
"Your CPU usage is running very erratic." This is similar as the one above, except the technician is running something to do this. Actually this type of behavior is not good (if it was really your computer doing this, rather than someone artificially triggering it). The Resource Monitor
"Let me run a diagnostic on your computer. It will take some time so you can go make yourself a coup of tea if you'd like." The technician uses this Windows feature to simulate a diagnostic, while in fact he is ‘helping' other customers. While this tool can be extremely useful, here it is just used for ‘show'. The System Information (msinfo32)
"These are critical "Windows Errors". You need to buy the software warranty to fix them." Again, error logs (which all computers have) should not be translated into poor performance or malware without actually reviewing them one by one. The Prefetch files
"These are damaged programs that cannot be deleted or even worse, viruses! You need to clean up your PC now!" These are files that correspond to applications you often use. Windows saves them in there so that next time you launch those applications they start faster. The restore from trash trick
"Look: I am going to delete all these files. [waits a few seconds…]. And see they all came back!" There is a keyboard shortcut to undo the last action (in this case delete). It is Ctrl+Z. Of course the victim sees nothing because it's a shortcut. The Temporary files (%temp%)
"These are infected files with worms, trojans and viruses. The disk is full of them." Simply because a temporary file cannot be deleted does not mean it's a virus. It could be in use by any currently running application. The Fake scanners
"This scan shows several viruses that were found by our security scanner. They have infected your registry." This program is essentially a fake antivirus, stuffed with made up detections meant to alarm you.
Source.https://blog.malwarebytes.org/tech-support-scams/
This program is essentially a fake antivirus, stuffed with made up detections meant to alarm you.
The dir and tree commands
These two commands perform a full virus scan on your computer and will report any infected file.
These are DOS commands that list directory contents and paths. They have absolutely nothing to do with scanning for malware.
The custom Virus message
Following the scan, we found 42% of your files are infected, including a Zeus Trojan. Windows is at high risk.
This message was typed by the scammers and then pasted on the command prompt. It is totally fake.
The red Command-Line Terminal
Look at all these malware infections in red. All of your files have been compromised and will be destroyed.
The Windows Terminal can be customized to have different font colors as well as background colors. Red looks scary
The ping (on Mac OS X)
We tested the protection on your Mac and found that there isnt any. You need to buy our antivirus right now because you are going to get infected.
This is an abuse of the ping command, something meant to check if you are properly connected to the Internet or see if a website is responding. It has nothing to do with protection on your Mac.
The netstat command
Hackers have infiltrated your computer, they are stealing your files doing cybercrime!!
This is a command to display network connections (incoming, outgoing) but you cant necessarily deduce these are hackers.
The online glossary or Wikipedia trick
Its not just me saying that there are viruses and trojans on your computer. Check these online resources as well.
Leveraging glossaries or reference sites is a clever trick to borrow legitimacy to certain claims. If such or such site says its true then it must be or not.
The Network Access Protection (NAP)
Your network protection is disabled. All the hackers are already inside your computer.
The Network Access Protection is a feature that mostly applies to PCs that connect to a domain. It ensures they adhere to safety standards. If this is your one and only computer, NAP should be left Off.
The notepad trick
Can you read this? Does this make sense to you? No. The computer cannot understand this file. It is like alien words.
Certain files are not meant to be read with notepad. In particular, executable files need special tools to read their sections. Therefore, it is perfectly normal that this files cannot be read as text.
The Power Efficiency report (powercfg energy)
Your computers battery is going to fail very soon. It might even catch on fire if you dont do something about it right now!
This command can generate a report to help users optimize their battery (useful on a laptop) and detect non optimal settings to save power, etc.. Source.https://blog.malwarebytes.org/tech-support-scams/
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[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]The network is working just fine. Scammers will use the registry editor to show empty keys and conclude your security is at risk.[/COLOR]
The Process Explorer error
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[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]This [Error opening process] label happens because the user ran Process Explorer with limited privileges. It has nothing to do with errors on the computer.[/COLOR]
The digital certificates
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[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848] These are normal and although the friendly name is deceiving, those revoked certificates are used by your browser to protect you from untrusted sites.[/COLOR]
Getting help (damage control)
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]Getting scammed is one of the worst feelings to experience. In many ways you feel like you have been violated and are really angry to have let your guard down. Perhaps you are even shocked and scared and dont really know what to do now. The following tips will hopefully provide you with some guidance.[/COLOR] If you already let them in
Revoke remote access (if unsure, restart your computer). That should cut the remote session and kick them out of your PC.
Scan your computer for malware. The miscreants may have installed password stealers or other Trojans to capture your keystrokes. Use a program such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to quickly identify and remove threats.
Change all your passwords (Windows password, email, banking, etc).
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]In some cases (you did not pay or called them names), scammers will seek revenge on your machine. Here are some things they might try and what to do to recover from them:[/COLOR]
Master password lock out
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Missing software drivers
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]First, try to do a System Restore. If it fails, you should be able to reinstall them by going to the manufacturers website and download the appropriate driver.[/COLOR]
Missing files
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]First, try to do a System Restore. If it is not available, check for backups you may have made and stored somewhere else. As a last resort, there are programs that can scrape your hard drive and attempt to recover the missing files.[/COLOR] If you already paid
Contact your financial institution/credit card company to reverse the charges and keep an eye for future unwanted charges.
If you gave them personal information such as date of birth, Social Security Number, full address, name and maiden name you may want to consult the FTCs website and report identity theft.
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Write down the TeamViewer ID (9-digit code) and send it to TeamViewers support (they can later on block people/companies with that information)
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[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]While hanging up is the safest thing to do when you get a cold call, some people have gone on a mission to expose those scammers. While we dont endorse this behaviour, if you do have information to share, please let us know and we will update this page with any new relevant details.[/COLOR]
Tech Support Blacklist
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]This list is being updated on a regular basis from our own investigations as well as from tips we receive from our readers. There are two main objectives with that list:[/COLOR]
To protect people who are about to call for tech support assistance and want to make sure the company has not already been listed.
To provide assistance to victims that have already been conned and are googling the phone number they called or company they interacted with.
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[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]Criteria:[/COLOR]
#1 Pretends to be working for Microsoft or Windows.
#2 Uses misleading tactics to force a sale (see an example here).
#3 Finds viruses, malware or an infection on a perfectly clean system.
#4 Validates a fraudulent popup or page as legitimate (see an example here).
[COLOR=[URL=https://www.jamiiforums.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=4]#4[/URL] 84848]List:[/COLOR] Company name and aliases: 24/7 PC Guard Website(s): 247pcguard.com Phone number(s): 1-888-855-7953 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000001Company name and aliases: 365 Tech Help Website(s): 365techhelp.co/bng/slow-pc, fastsupport.com Phone number(s): 1-866-539-8804 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 09/27/2013 Incident ID: 0000002Company name and aliases: Speak Support Website(s): speaksupport.com, 121usa.com Phone number(s): 1-800-806-0768 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 10/04/2013 Incident ID: 0000003Company name and aliases: PC Smart Care Website(s): pcsmartcare.com, pcsmartcare.us Phone number(s): 1-855-569-5945 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 11/27/2013 Incident ID: 0000004Company name and aliases: PC Mask Website(s): pcmask.com Phone number(s): 1-877-385-1667 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 11/28/2013 Incident ID: 0000005Company name and aliases: My Tech Gurus Website(s): mytechgurus.com Phone number(s): 1-866-587-1775 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 12/11/2013 Incident ID: 0000006Company name and aliases: MegaITSupport
Website(s): megaitsupport.com Phone number(s): 1-888-939-3618 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 01/09/2013 Incident ID: 0000007Company name and aliases: GBM Support
Website(s): gbmsupport.net Phone number(s): 1-800-492-3960 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 01/23/2013 Incident ID: 0000008Company name and aliases: Click4Support
Website(s): lickforsupport.net, webtechmasterhelp.com, techsupportcenter.org, techsupportive.com Phone number(s): 1-855-668-8555 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 292242 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 01/23/2013 Incident ID: 0000009Company name and aliases: PC Toolkit Pro
Website(s): pctoolkitpro.com Phone number(s): 1-855-803-1370 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000010Company name and aliases: iGennie
Website(s): igennie.net Phone number(s): 1-888-239-4339 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 01/30/2013 Incident ID: 0000011Company name and aliases: Compute My PC
Website(s): computemypc.com Phone number(s): 1-800-356-7697 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 01/31/2013 Incident ID: 0000012Company name and aliases: TechFix Pro
Website(s): techfixpro.com Phone number(s): 1-888-768-0082 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000013Company name and aliases: iMax Support
Website(s): imaxsupport.com, fix247.org Phone number(s): 1-800-247-0830 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 03/25/2014 Incident ID: 0000014Company name and aliases: Internet Security Protect
Website(s): internetsecurityprotect.com Phone number(s): (020)-3289-1596 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000015Company name and aliases: All In One Tech Support
Website(s): allinonetech.net, allinonetech.us Phone number(s): 1-800-487-9456 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000016Company name and aliases: 1844desktop
Website(s): 1844desktop.com Phone number(s): 1-884-337-5867 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000017Company name and aliases: Comlogic
Website(s): comlogicinc.com Phone number(s): 1-888-930-1033 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000018Company name and aliases: PC Tech Clinic
Website(s): pctechclinic.com Phone number(s): 1-855-486-4411 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 152903 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 06/17/2014 Incident ID: 0000019Company name and aliases: Condis Services
Website(s): condiservices.com Phone number(s): 1-888-221-6490 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: ISL: 19834912 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 06/17/2014 Incident ID: 0000020Company name and aliases: aolrisk
Website(s): aolrisk.com Phone number(s): 1-855-666-8849 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 770772 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000021Company name and aliases: Affiliated Help {no longer blacklisted) Incident ID: 0000022 Note: Company is willing to clean up its act and has therefore been delisted.Company name and aliases: 247 Support Experts
Website(s): 247supportexperts.com, 3wayhelp.com Phone number(s): 1-888-221-1582 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMein: 146794 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 07/14/2014 Incident ID: 0000023Company name and aliases: SysCare247
Website(s): syscare247.com Phone number(s): 213-260-2279 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: N/A Incident ID: 0000024Company name and aliases: OMG Tech Help
Website(s): omgtechhelp.com Phone number(s): 855-316-8324 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 642695 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 07/21/2014 Incident ID: 0000025Company name and aliases: OnVoiceSupport
Website(s): omgtechhelp.com Phone number(s): 855-316-8324 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 642695 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 07/21/2014 Incident ID: 0000026Company name and aliases: Ecomputer Support
Website(s): ecomputersupport.net Phone number(s): 1-877-360-0594, 1-855-820-8680 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 432039 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 07/23/2014 Incident ID: 0000027Company name and aliases: E-Racer Tech (Clean IT PC)
Website(s): e-racertech.com, cleanitpc.com Phone number(s): 1-855-486-1800, 1-877-648-7339 Affiliate(s): error711971669.com Remote control software: LogMeIn: 432039 Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #4 Incident date: 05/28/2014 Incident ID: 0000028Company name and aliases: Cump Tech Media Pvt Ltd
Website(s): xevoke.com,onlineinstanthelp.com Phone number(s): 1-855-209-0559 Affiliate(s): onlineinstanthelp.com/malwarebytes-us/download.html Remote control software: LogMeIn: 186024 Payment processor: CheckOut LTD Reason for blacklisting: #2 , #3 Incident date: 07/31/2014 Incident ID: 0000029Company name and aliases: Fast Fix 123
Website(s): fastfix123.com Phone number(s): 1-800-832-3088 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: N/A Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #3 Incident date: 08/22/2014 Incident ID: 0000030Company name and aliases: ProcomSupport247
Website(s): procomsupport247.com Phone number(s): 1-866-456-2763 Affiliate(s): techsupportnumber.us/online Remote control software: LogMeIn: 162225 Payment processor: FreshBooks Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 09/04/2014 Incident ID: 0000031
Company name and aliases: American Tec Help
Website(s): americantechelp.com Phone number(s): 1-800-984-9830 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: Payment processor: N/A Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 11/06/2014 Incident ID: 0000032
Company name and aliases: LiveTechOnCall, Live Tech On Call, AVIVO LLC
Website(s): livetechoncall.com Phone number(s): 1-888-456-7041 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: TeamViewer Payment processor: N/A Price: $509.97 Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 12/10/2014 Incident ID: 0000033
Company name and aliases: Tech World Wide Helpdesk
Website(s): techworldwide.org Phone number(s): 1-844-774-9453 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn id# 157441 Payment processor: N/A Price: $369.99 Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 01/05/2015 Incident ID: 0000034
Company name and aliases: iTech Expert
Website(s): itechexpert.us Phone number(s): 1-844-823-6218 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: TeamViewer Payment processor: N/A Price: $369.99 Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 01/12/2015 Incident ID: 0000035
Company name and aliases: OneBit IT
Website(s): onebitit.com Phone number(s): 1-844-663-2484 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 930301 Payment processor: N/A Price: $350 Reason for blacklisting: #3 Incident date: 01/22/2015 Incident ID: 0000036
Company name and aliases: Yoda Care
Website(s): yodacare.com Phone number(s): 1-877-228-1097 Affiliate(s): fake pop up Remote control software: LogMeIn: 752681 Payment processor: N/A Price: $320 Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 01/23/2015 Incident ID: 0000037
Company name and aliases: MyPCTech24
Website(s): mypctech24.com Phone number(s): 1-888-831-6421 Affiliate(s): N/A Remote control software: LogMeIn: 424826 Payment processor: N/A Price: $299 Reason for blacklisting: #1 ,#2 ,#3 ,#4 Incident date: 02/10/2015 Incident ID: 0000038
This reminds me of the call I got from someone who claimed to be a representative of Microsoft and that they monitored a virus in my computer. I told the guy I knew he was a fake but he insisted that it was important that I let him access my computer to fix the problem or it would leak my info to the internet. I declined and hung up. It's been a week and nothing came up.
I got the caller's phone number and reported it to Callercenter.com. In just about a week, 12 others posted responses that confirmed the call was a scam.
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Hello, we are calling from Windows and your computer looks like it is infected. Our Microsoft Certified Technician can fix it for you.
Sound familiar? Whether you have just been scammed or simply want to find out more on the topic, you have come to the right place.
Usually from India and operating out of boiler rooms, these scammers call people in the U.S, Canada, the UK, and Australia whom they find in the phone directory.
"These errors are viruses or serious damage to the backend of your PC. If not taken care of immediately, you will lose your computer."
The Event Viewer is an application that aggregates all of the log files from your computer. It is traditionally used by system administrators to diagnose certain errors. However, most events are harmless notifications.
