The BBC had this article on the latest round of scareware. Nothing like getting the end user to pay to install your trojan. What's really sad is the people who get scammed this way not only pay for the trojan but then their identity gets stolen since they give a credit card number to the scammers.
I had to laugh when I'd get these during an earlier round of scareware adverts a couple of years ago since I've been running Linux as my primary OS since 1998. SIGH.
Cheers,
Dave
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- DaveAtFraud
- B.Sc. ('78) and M.Sc. ('80) in Math from Ohio State followed by 12 yrs at TRW and a variety of software development positions since then. Currently living in Colorado and enjoying "trial retirement". For fun I climb mountains in the summer and ski down them in the winter, fix gourmet food and have an excellent wine cellar.
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ReplyDeleteInteresting that they are doing this by using the same font/style. This is a form of social engineering.