Thursday, October 2, 2014

Support Scammers: Hoping to Reign in Spain?

Support scammers. Again. Those nice people who are always ready to tell you that you have a virus, or a Trojan, or have been attacked by hackers, and so on, but are willing to help you fix it for a not inconsiderable sum.
Almost by definition, the support scam preys on people who don’t understand technology well enough to realize that the scammers don’t really know anything about the victim’s system or Internet connection. In countries that are primarily English-speaking, the scam has been perpetuated so often and so long, and publicized well enough, that the pool of  potential victims has been steadily shrinking.


Support Scammers: Hoping to Reign in Spain?

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