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My new guilty pleasure: Watching this YouTuber making scammers lose their minds

mercredi 7 mai 2025, 21:37 , par BoingBoing
My new guilty pleasure: Watching this YouTuber making scammers lose their minds
On paper, the anatomy of a refund scam is simple. A scammer calls a victim, alerting them of some fictitious tax rebate or tech refund. After gaining access to the victim's computer and navigating to their banking page, the scammer uses simple text edits to 'change' the victim's bank balance, pretending to have sent far too much money than they were supposed to. — Read the rest
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