You’ve heard the expression ‘There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch!’, well the same can also apply to Microsoft Office. Seems this scam so far is only in the UK, but not to stay it won’t be expanded into the US or our scammers here will start copying this scam. People in the UK are getting a package in the mail unsolicited which contains a ‘free’ Microsoft Office Professional Plus (retail $150 USD (£119.99)) on an engraved USB flash drive. There is also legitimate looking activation key sticker on the packaging. “If it sounds too good to be true…”…
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Today I am going to cover something a little different, yet still tech related. This from the ‘dark or evil’ side of tech, the ‘Tech Support’ and ‘Refund’ or ‘Gift Card’ Scams. Both of these while having a different ‘hook’ end the same, hours later the victim is handing over large sums of money (sometimes their entire savings) to the scammer and the scammer has complete access to their computer and/or phone. You may have heard about these and even wondered how they work and for that matter why do people fall for them. At the end of this post…