What to do when a scam site takes over your Safari homepage<article>
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<p>Scammers try all sorts of ways to convince you that something’s wrong with your Mac and that only by calling “Apple” (it’s never Apple) via a phone number on screen and paying some outrageous amount of money can your computer be “fixed.” In some cases, websites can seemingly hijack Safari in macOS, making it impossible to bypass a page.</p><p>Macworld reader Antonella encountered one variant: a printer dialog appears whenever she launches Safari. The phone number of a scam site appears in the print dialog (and would appear on the output if printed). She can’t seem to get past this, because the scam site has changed her homepage to its URL.</p><figure class="large "><img src="
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<p>This scammy site stymied a reader’s ability to stop loading it on launch. (Details blurred for privacy and to avoid spreading the phone number.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3241024/browsers/what-to-do-when-a-scam-site-takes-over-your-safari-homepage.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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What to do when a scam site takes over your Safari homepage
