• Hikermick@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Usually I warn my 81 year old dad about these scams. Don’t think I need to worry about this one, he wouldn’t be tech savvy enough to find the windows button

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      3 months ago

      When I saw a women get hacked aftermath. They installed remote access software, however in her downloads you could see the 10 duplicates.

      The scum fuck scammer on the phone had to spend at least 45 minutes trying to get them to navigate to their downloads and run the installer.

      Our elders are safe from this one lol

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        3 months ago

        Sometimes I feel bad for scammers because I know how long it takes just to freaking reset a password on legitimate support calls at work (and usually that’s someone who’s put in a vague ticket saying “software isn’t working” so I emailed them a “I’m not a psychic” email with a link to schedule a call which requires one to schedule on the next business day just to finally talk on the phone and identify what they couldn’t write out in their ticket 2 days ago) but then I remember that they’re fucking scammers and often fully aware of what they’re doing