Category Archives: Scam

2017: the year of configuring Linux (or Windows, or OS X, or…) on the desktop

Posted on 2017-01-07 by Graham

I’m going to FOSDEM next month, maybe I’ll see some of you there. This gives me motivation to solve one of the outstanding problems on my laptop: I currently, as has been mentioned here multiple times, use Windows 10 as … Continue reading →

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On phone support scams and fake AV

Posted on 2010-11-17 by Graham

A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Twitter about a new scam: Heard about someone who was phoned by a man “from Windows” who engineered his way into remote access to the mark’s computer. Fast forward to now, the … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a software sales scam

Posted on 2010-02-11 by Graham

A couple of days ago, Daniel Kennett of the KennettNet micro-ISV (in plain talk, a one-man software business) told me that a customer had fallen victim to a scam. She had purchased a copy of his application Music Rescue—a very … Continue reading →

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