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Supreme scam £1000 stolen from account
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Usually ignorance is no excuse.0
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I found the call flood scammers one (was a US IRS scam)- his software actually called 28 times a second. Around 2:50 you can hear the message on other phones in the office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzedMdx6QG4
The Wannacry one is here, the guys do a few other videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFiBzHMAkmUSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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I mean, if a stranger told you to jump off the rooftop, you wouldn't do it, would you?The golden rule here is NEVER download ANYTHING onto your computer on the say so of a stranger on the phone.
As to the question as how this message got onto the computer, they are just specially crafted popups that make themselves difficult to close. No malware has to be present, they normally hide out on less than savoury web sites or web sites that are offering something for nothing like watching the latest movie for free for example.
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