A US judge has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years and five months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a business email compromise scam that targeted organisations around the world.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Tables were turned on a fake tech support line when a tech-savvy ‘victim’ played them at their own game.
Naked Security – Sophos
While the big security news was happening in Las Vegas at conferences, security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski’s story was too funny to pass up – at least if you loathe scareware scams.
After only 30 minutes on a new computer, his parents surfed to an online tech support scam which claimed their PC was infected with Zeus.
Ivan Kwiatkowski Fairly atrocious attempt at scareware by tech support scammers.
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Tech support scammers should probably just hang up the phone when a scam call goes wrong.
But one scammer took things to a new level by threatening to kill a man who pointed out that the scammer was trying to steal money.
As we’ve reported numerous times, scammers pretending to work for Microsoft tech support call potential victims, tell them their computers are infected, convince them to provide remote access, and then charge them hundreds of dollars to fix imaginary problems.
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