Cyber Attack
On Saturday, after clicking on a photo on Facebook, my computer froze with an alarming on screen message from Apple that my MacBook had been infected with a Trojan Horse and to call a toll-free number immediately at Apple Cyber Security. The technician that I spoke with was calm, authoritative and considerate - asked for remote access to my
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Jason Statham starred in an action movie literally based on this! It came out earlier this year called The Beekeeper. Some libraries over here are showing it to retirees as an education service for retirees to teach them about fraud operations that are targeting them.
My dad got caught in an attempted bank fraud. He got a call from someone who "accidentally" deposited $20,000 into his checking account from their employer, he went online and indeed it did show an add'l $20k in his account. They started crying and saying that they were going to lose their job, get prosecuted, etc etc and they needed my dad to wire the $20k back to them.
The fraud is that they initiated a deposit, but never completed it, so within 24 hours or so that $20k would vanish and was never available for withdrawal. If my dad had sent them the $20k, like he tried to do, he would have been out the money. Fortunately the bank recognized what he was trying to do and stopped him - it's a very common fraud. Unfortunately the local police department had zero interest in doing anything to investigate this crime.
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