4 ms·
And what prevents them from asking again next week. Or forging account ban regardless of ransom.
by ergo14 7y ago
And what prevents them from asking again next week. Or forging account ban regardless of ransom.
- Dylan16807 7y agoYou still probably get the best outcomes if you're willing to pay sufficiently credible threats a couple times.
- staticassertion 7y agoWe don't typically see that with ransomeware so I don't know why we'd see that with other types of extortion.
- ergo14 7y agoWith ransomware if you get hacked you usually fix your defenses.
- gsich 7y agoOr a different extortionist comes along next week?
- viraptor 7y agoThe whole scheme would collapse. It only works as long as people reasonably believe paying will solve the problem for a long while. This is why many ransomware campaigns pretty much run a callcentre with support for how to easily buy BTC and make the transfer.
- djannzjkzxn 7y agoIf there’s only one group running the scheme it works, but if there are many, it becomes very difficult to coordinate and limit repeated demands. Soft of like how oil producers can only keep the price up if everyone joins the cartel. Each member will make more money if they defect.
- ultimape 7y agoThis is why organized crime is very aggressive toward upstarts.
- daemin 7y agoSo these scammers have a better customer support system than Google?