Remember that scammer I reported playing with a few months ago? Well, apparently one of his many brothers-in-crime didn’t get the memo about me. I picked up the phone earlier this month and found myself talking to another very-heavily-accented man, who again tried to tell me that my computer was infected. I briefly considered playing with this one too, but I was very busy at the time, so:

“Sorry, this scam’s already been tried on me. It didn’t work last time either.”

There was a noticeable pause, then “Oh. Okay,” and he hung up.

I’d planned to report this on the blog equivalent of a slow news day, but while catching up on two weeks’ worth of backed-up news I found this article on that exact scam, and how it’s getting much more prevalent. Apparently one English-speaking person in eight has been targeted for it so far. I’m fairly certain that regular readers of this blog wouldn’t have fallen for it even without my warning, but be careful out there anyway.