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Help desk & support: Customer support scams and fraud alerts
There is a pervasive issue with scams being associated with help desk and customer support services. Numerous reports indicate that individuals are being misled and defrauded by scammers posing as legitimate customer service representatives.
59 different people have complained about this since 29 Oct 2024, most recently on 22 Sept 2026.
“HelpDesk Host — Got into my bank app - SCAM.”
59 people in 59 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 59 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 59 people using HelpDesk Host and Customer App - Zoho Assist
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (43/100)
- Since
- 29 Oct 2024 → 22 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- HelpDesk Host and Customer App - Zoho Assist
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint59100%
Sources
59 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
HelpDesk Host — SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! Don’t use this app it’s used by third world criminals. If you use it you will be scammed. Thought I was contacting PayPal got the number from google guess I’m gonna stop using them to. Connected to some man from India that told me they had to verify my PayPal account by downloading…
HelpDesk Host — Got into my bank app - SCAM Please don't reply to my review trying to defend this crummy app, which is basically theft on wheels. I caught you guys red-handed trying to steal money directly out of my bank account. I had to change my user ID because somebody kept on trying to change my email address…
HelpDesk Host — Facebook SCAM — They tried to look at my financial apps which had nothing to do with my business account on FACEBOOK. And claimed someone was trying to buy cryptocurrency and that they needed to see my Venmo, Cash app accounts..the crazy thing is that the number popped up in the Meta Business Suite…
HelpDesk Host — BEWARE SCAM APP — This is exact thing happened to me as well!! They pretended to be Facebook support team then showed that someone was trying to take over $12,000 from my account on facebook. Then tried to get me to go through all my financial apps to see if the scammers had gotten into those then the…
HelpDesk Host — SCAM — Tried getting in contact with “Roku” to cancel a subscription my son downloaded, guy with Indian accent answered with only a “hello” told me to download the app and give him access which I thought was weird. He wanted me to open my settings app and go to my account profile and open UBER when I…
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Questions about this idea
- Is Help desk & support: Customer support scams and fraud alerts a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 59 different people described it independently, in 59 mentions, the earliest from 29 Oct 2024 and the most recent from 22 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 73/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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