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I have a story... You're going to laugh. My father gets a call from a spammer from India claiming he's from Microsoft. Guy says "We have detected a virus on your PC and we need to remove it as soon as possible." My father hangs up because it was an obvious scam... Later on, they called again while my father was out of the house. My mother answered the phone... Now, she's a hardcore alcoholic, and a naturally anxious person, so she actually listened to the guy. He walked her through all of the steps to download a piece of remote hosting software and give him remote access to the computer, and when he got it he installed malware and demanded a ransom. When my mother told him that she doesn't have a credit card to pay the 500 dollar fee, they decided to have fun and start installing more malware while mocking her and laughing. Porn EVERYWHERE. Well, she did the smart thing and gave me a call on her other phone, bawling her eyes out telling me to get over there ASAP. Traced his IP and threatened him with sending some of my friends on the dark web (to sound edgy and badass to a complete noob). He relinquished control of the PC and hung up the phone. Then came weeks of fixing the damage caused... It was really bad, seeing as my parents tax return statements were sitting on the desktop. Had to call literally everything that could possibly be affected. Moral of the story: even something as obviously a scam as that can work on the right person...
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