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"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.
arstechnica.com




I was furious that he only reported them and didn't try to send an infected PDF or use that kali install to hack back. Oh well.
Thank god we have a massive spy network used to shut these things down. /s
I've read some of these accounts before. I don't know why I always enjoy reading it. Maybe because I've had these people call my elderly mother several times.