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I hope Apple shuts these people down.
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The trademark infringement should be enough to get Apple’s attention but if it is hosted in China or Russia for example, it probably will be hard to shut it down.
Apple will know about this soon.
I reported it.
Unbelievable!
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I reported it.
Unbelievable!
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Wow. That’s got to be one of the worst I‘ve seen yet. It seems to only get worse with time
The unfortunate thing is people are gullible. Until people stop falling for it, it will continue. Always amazes me what people will fall for.
Yep. Apple only supports stuff like that if they’re on App Store.
And people keep falling for it, as badly put together as these scams are, yet they keep coming…
If you think about that, it makes perfect sense.
Let's say I want to run a scam, right? The one thing I don't want to do is deal with folks like you and me who will be all suspicious and eventually give me a bunch of grief and take up a bunch of my time.
The people I want to target are, for lack of a kinder word, idiots. So I don't make the best scam pitch I can make, I make a scam pitch that folks like you and me will look at and go, "Wow, what a scam" and move on. Why fool with us at all? Even if it starts off looking 100% legit we'll figure it out eventually.
So, by weeding out anyone the least bit savvy right up front, they're allowing their victims to self-select themselves. They know that anyone who falls for it is not going to be very bright, which is why those people who "scam the scammers" always tickle me so much. You can always tell that the scammers really, really aren't used to dealing with anyone with any sort of critical thinking skills at all.
It does make perfect sense, unfortunately.
Scam the scammers. I've done exactly that, a few times, and pi$$ed them off to no end.
He has since cancelled his land line mostly because he wasn't using it anymore, but my 80 year old Belgian father-in-law, who doesn't speak more than 5 words of English, was constantly getting called by 'The Windows department', in English, to say he has a 'virus' on his computer and that he needs to give them remote access so they can 'fix' read: hijack his machine. It is interesting to note that they are calling a Belgian number, I would like to assume they know this. The least they could do is hire people/scammers who speak the local language. On the other hand, I think they're calling non-English numbers in English in order to create the necessary confusion.
Thankfully, because he doesn't speak or understand English he would simply hang up. However, they often called when I was there....he would then simply hand the phone to me...oh what fun I had. Sometimes I told them I had a Mac, to which they replied 'Macs get this virus too' and would attempt to walk me through the process of giving them access. Remember, this is 'The Windows department', but they also do Macs now, all of a sudden. Other times I would play along, for a good 15 minutes, doing nothing other than reading the news and drinking my coffee, or something stronger, depending on the time of day. Most times they got really, really upset when they realised I was on to them. Yet, they kept calling. You'd think they'd put the number on a blacklist, 'don't call this one again, they know...' Well we saved them the trouble, that number is gone now.
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