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Beware: A Dangerous Windows 10 Ransomware Scam Is Spreading Online
Stoic Joker:
It has sweet-FA to do with Windows 10 - It's just randomware...-Stephen66515 (August 03, 2015, 09:31 AM)
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While basically true, the reality is it's leveraging the confusion surrounding the new-fangled Windows 10 upgrade delivery system to get people to launch it.
KynloStephen66515:
It has sweet-FA to do with Windows 10 - It's just randomware...-Stephen66515 (August 03, 2015, 09:31 AM)
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While basically true, the reality is it's leveraging the confusion surrounding the new-fangled Windows 10 upgrade delivery system to get people to launch it.
-Stoic Joker (August 03, 2015, 11:08 AM)
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Yeah, but what strikes me, is everybody (news outlets included) are reporting it, as if it is a problem WITH Windows 10 itself, rather than really making it obvious (without reading in depth) that it is an e-mail scam. For most of the internet (sigh) the truth is simple...they will read a headline on Facebook, or a news website, and see stuff like "A Dangerous Windows 10 Ransomware Scam Is Spreading Online" which instantly makes people jump to the conclusion that Windows 10 is evil and will cause you to lose all your files. It's like saying "GTA V files found to contain terrorist training materials"...when the true story is really that some torrent purporting to be GTA V, contains those files...And although yes, the headline is theoretically true...it gives the complete wrong indication as to wtf is really going on. It really should read something like "E-Mail scam targets those who haven't upgraded to Windows 10" (Or something along those lines)...but sadly...the world we live in requires the people who write these stories, to make them as obscure as possible, with a clickbaity style header, making people want to jump to conclusions and share the story based on nothing but guess work :(
CWuestefeld:
Anyone want to summarize a "magic bullet" method of separating the fake ones from the real ones?
-TaoPhoenix (August 03, 2015, 09:24 AM)
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Check for spelling and grammar errors. I have never seen a phishing or scam email that didn't have such errors. But a company like MS is going to have everybody from their marketing department to their lawyers proofreading anything they send, it's not going to have such errors.
It seems that the folks who engage in scams like this are the kind of people who think they can get by without having to do their own work, and so they never did their own studying back in school, either.
KynloStephen66515:
Anyone want to summarize a "magic bullet" method of separating the fake ones from the real ones?
-TaoPhoenix (August 03, 2015, 09:24 AM)
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Check for spelling and grammar errors. I have never seen a phishing or scam email that didn't have such errors. But a company like MS is going to have everybody from their marketing department to their lawyers proofreading anything they send, it's not going to have such errors.
It seems that the folks who engage in scams like this are the kind of people who think they can get by without having to do their own work, and so they never did their own studying back in school, either.
-CWuestefeld (August 03, 2015, 02:26 PM)
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Well, tbh, when it comes to this...As far as I am aware, they don't e-mail you shit to click to download - They just download it to your PC if you pre-ordered via the annoying popup, then it will give you an annoying popup to tell you it's done doing whatever it did.
It does specifically say, in that stupid popup, that when it is ready, that window will let you know - absolutely nothing about "We will e-mail you" - So...if people didn't read that, they may as well go ahead and collect that prize for being the #1,000,000 visitor, help that Saudi Prince get access to his funds by sending him $1000, buy some of that tasty Viagra, partake in some penis enlargement pills and play the Nigerian Lottery.
tomos:
Well, tbh, when it comes to this...As far as I am aware, they don't e-mail you shit to click to download - They just download it to your PC if you pre-ordered via the annoying popup, then it will give you an annoying popup to tell you it's done doing whatever it did.
It does specifically say, in that stupid popup, that when it is ready, that window will let you know - absolutely nothing about "We will e-mail you"
-Stephen66515 (August 03, 2015, 02:35 PM)
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dont be too quick of the mark there Stephen - I got asked when I 'reserved' my copy, if I wanted email notification.
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