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What to do right now
Stop following the other person’s instructions and end contact. From another trusted device, contact financial institutions if accounts were visible or accessed, then get device-specific help from the device maker or a support service you independently choose.
Immediate actions
Protect accounts before troubleshooting the device.
Stop following the other person’s instructions and end contact. If access may still be active, use another trusted device to get immediate, device-specific containment help.
From another trusted device, contact financial institutions if accounts were visible or accessed.
Get help from the device maker, a service you already chose, or a qualified trusted technician—not the number in the warning.
Follow that trusted source’s current instructions to update security software, scan, remove identified problems, and secure accounts.
Use the password, code, card, bank, or identity pages for anything else that was exposed.
Do not
Avoid making the situation harder.
- Do not call the phone number in the pop-up or warning.
- Do not let the same contact reconnect to ‘fix’ the problem.
- Do not rely on a single generic cleanup step for every device.
Records and reporting
Keep the details you already have.
Write down the remote-access software name, approximate access time, what the person could see, and any files or settings you noticed changing.
Source notes
Official guidance behind these steps
Plainly Living uses the scope and exceptions recorded in its claim-control ledger. These links go to the responsible public agency.