river4ever
river4ever
Has me thinking to try it out. LOL
I had family member who nearly caught out with scam. They pretended to work for Windows support team.
A French security researcher says he managed to turn the tables on a cyber-scammer by sending him malware.
Technical support scams try to convince people to buy expensive software to fix imaginary problems.
But Ivan Kwiatkowski played along with the scheme until he was asked to send credit card details. He instead sent an attachment containing ransomware.
He told the BBC he wanted to waste the man's time to make the scheme unprofitable.
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37084009
I had family member who nearly caught out with scam. They pretended to work for Windows support team.
A French security researcher says he managed to turn the tables on a cyber-scammer by sending him malware.
Technical support scams try to convince people to buy expensive software to fix imaginary problems.
But Ivan Kwiatkowski played along with the scheme until he was asked to send credit card details. He instead sent an attachment containing ransomware.
He told the BBC he wanted to waste the man's time to make the scheme unprofitable.
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37084009
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