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When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy

Posted by timothy on from the human-engineering-with-phony-humans dept.

ancientribe writes "Phony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home. He lured them into a honeypot to study their actions, and posted the video online here. His main takeaway: they were 'Stone Age' when it came to their tech know-how."

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  1. Re:Sounds familiar by NemoinSpace · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I knew if this went on long enough we drift off topic.