Nasty threat scam

[JU_88]

Reminds me of the time I got locked out with ransomware from the 'West midland police', (even though I'm not in their area) threatening me with a court case for downloading Warez and and other illegal activity - unless i paid them a tidy sum of course.
Restored my system from a recovery point and all was well.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Reminds me of the time I got locked out with ransomware from the 'West midland police', (even though I'm not in their area) threatening me with a court case for downloading Warez and and other illegal activity - unless i paid them a tidy sum of course.
Restored my system from a recovery point and all was well.

I had a similar thing like that but in my case I bought a new pc as that one was old and was showing signs it was about to conk out any day. Slight different was they demanded I pay £10,000 the next day and every day that slipped by not paying them additional £5,000 a day on top be charged. And by the end of the week any property I had would be taken away from me. Bunch of their ransom on the harddrive was removed with a hammer.

[Reece]

That one is laughable STEED, £10,000 + £5,000 for each day not paid, is too ridiculous, you'd think these guys would come up with a more realistic scenario!!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Reece

That one is laughable STEED, £10,000 + £5,000 for each day not paid, is too ridiculous, you'd think these guys would come up with a more realistic scenario!!

It's quite worrying when you take into account some people pay up.

[STEED]

Most of us can spot dumb scams but some don't and it's them these vermin pray on.

[Sean C]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Next time tape over the computer camera lens.

I told my mother-in-law to do that and she used clear cello-tape.

Originally Posted by STEED

Most of us can spot dumb scams but some don't and it's them these vermin pray on.

The drummer in my band came to practice one day all excited. He told me that he and his girlfriend had received an email telling him that if he sent US$500 to the sender, he would get something like $5,000 in return. I laughed and said "You didn't send it though, right?" He had a puzzled look on his face and replied "Yeah, we did. ... Why?"


I asked him if he was serious and he said he was. He didn't seem to understand why I was questioning the idea at all. I had the unfortunate task of explaining to him that his money was gone forever and that he would never see one cent in return. I felt really bad for the guy. He's a good man and I couldn't believe that he fell for it. We were fairly young and that was probably the majority of his savings at the time.

[JU_88]

Damn^ poor guy.

Well if you need cheering up there is no shortage of Youtube Videos
Showing Scammers getting scammed or people just generally playing along while messing with them and driving them completely nuts.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Nathaniel B.

I told my mother-in-law to do that and she used clear cello-tape.





The drummer in my band came to practice one day all excited. He told me that he and his girlfriend had received an email telling him that if he sent US$500 to the sender, he would get something like $5,000 in return. I laughed and said "You didn't send it though, right?" He had a puzzled look on his face and replied "Yeah, we did. ... Why?"


I asked him if he was serious and he said he was. He didn't seem to understand why I was questioning the idea at all. I had the unfortunate task of explaining to him that his money was gone forever and that he would never see one cent in return. I felt really bad for the guy. He's a good man and I couldn't believe that he fell for it. We were fairly young and that was probably the majority of his savings at the time.

Some people only learn lessons in life the hard way unfortunately.