Originally Posted by Gloworm
I'm sad to say that scam does work, they did it on my Fiance's mother who paid out over £50 to them, they then told her to go on a website and do something (can't recall what) then the virus alert popped up saying something has been detected on the computer at which point she called her husband who told her to shut down the computer, so when i went to visit, i disconnected the internet and ran a full virus scan, which deleted a hell of a lot of registry files that had been infected, backed everything up and reformatted the hard drive and re installed windows.
At the time i wasn't sure if i should laugh at her for her stupidity or cry that people are actually that stupid.
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I'm sorry to hear (read) that. Good thing you were on hand to make sure any keylogger wouldn't be able to send any more personal information.
A lesson well learned without too high a cost.
