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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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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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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