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Although virus designers are the creeping crud in the moral bucket, they come up with some uniquely creative ways to piss people off. This model is particularl
by bprater 18y ago
Although virus designers are the creeping crud in the moral bucket, they come up with some uniquely creative ways to piss people off.
This model is particularly good. The pain of losing your important work is almost greater than the pain of paying off the hostage company.
Again, good reason to back up your stuff (especially offsite!), but until it bites you, people won't do it. Eventually, OSes need to do backups by default. The bandwidth, connectivity and cheap drive space make this a no brainer.
- nickb 18y agoWhat I wanna know is how they collect payments. Virtually any form of payment is traceable today and if you can pay with a CC, you can complain to your CC company about fraud and get your money back. I did hear that some scammer use "gold payment systems" but never looked into those payment systems myself.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoPerhaps the scammer waits until the money is free and clear -- transferring to a different card, spending it, etc. Other options: the scammer might just use the email to arrange a physical cash transfer.