"Take your sweet time"-how I scammed a tech support scammer for nearly two hours

"Take your sweet time"-how I scammed a tech support scammer for nearly two hours

Technical support scams are the bottom of the barrel for cyber-crime. Using well-worn social engineering techniques that generally only work on the least sophisticated computer users, these bootleg call-center operations generally use a collection of commercially available tools to either convince their victims to pay exorbitant fees for "security software" or to extort them to gain control of their computer.

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