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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 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