The absolute worst thing about the Krugman thing is all the right-wing geeks pretending they don't know how this phone scam works and pretending they think there actually is CP on the guy's hard drive and the FBI needs to be called
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Replying to @HandymanDigital
Not really, the whole point of the scam is they tell you they are "your security service" - they say they're from McAfee or Norton or whatever and bet on the idea you don't actually know how those services work
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This happens to older people ALL THE TIME It's an extremely profitable grift that relies on people having a profound discomfort with technology and a tendency to defer to human "experts" It gets thousands of people every year
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Replying to @HandymanDigital
Not really I'm not an infosec professional but I've read a fair bit and taken a fair amount of seminars and the common theme about efforts to spearphish VIPs (CEOs and the like) is that it usually works
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Anyone who's very busy, who's used to having to deal with problems through layers of human delegation, and who's used to things being urgent and needing a quick rubber stamp is ripe for a con The question is not whether your company's CEO will get phished but when
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That's what I'm saying, vulnerability to this scam has no clear correlation with socioeconomic status in the broad sense, only with age and with overall technical familiarity
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There are many reasons that a random unemployed person would be far less likely than Krugman to fall for this scam One of them being that they would be less likely to have ever bought a paid security service and they'd likely think "Why'd someone target me in the first place"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HandymanDigital
One of the paradoxes of cons like this is they prey on fear and paranoia A genuinely lazy/neglectful person is very unlikely to fall for this con, compared to someone who's deeply worried about online attacks because they don't understand them
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