What is the dumbest online scam you have seen?

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>>59803526
>You're the 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 visitor! You won an iPhone! Click here!

>>59803573
I kinda miss those ads

>>59803577
At least they were harmless... Unless clicked.

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>>59803526
When this malware disguised as a browser was shilled everywhere. And retards actually fell for it and continue to do so to this day.

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>>59803526
One time, my mom told me that someone had been stealing her computer and viewing illegal content on it. Naturally, I thought "Yeah, right."

So I got to see her laptop, of course, she still uses windows XP (She's afraid all her precious pictures, many of them with 3 or more duplicates, will be deleted if she gets a new computer.)

You boot the PC up, and lo and behold, it boots to a big flashy, scary warning screen with FBI logos and stuff, saying "This computer has been locked by the US Cyber Command. This is probably because you may have been watching illegal content, buying illegal items online, or hacking into computers. Please insert your Social Security Number and credit card information to pay the fine and unlock this screen and you may proceed to use your computer."

Needless to say, she lost all of her shitty pictures and had a full on "Hoarder watching their house burn down" reaction.

>>59803573
I read about some guys that actually played those and ended up actually getting tons of shit. They just had to be careful and cancel any credit card transactions and eventually they actually got new iPhones and iPods and stuff.

>>59803628
S L O W D O W N
Firefox boys never learn. Chromium expands dong.

For the life of me, I can fathom how people get ransomware/malware/worms
I mean, dont you literally have to run an exe file for that shit to take effect?
Also, with windows 10, doesnt the OS make it more obvious that youre launching a program with no verification group?

>>59803526
Facebook.com

>>59803526
>>59709976
this

>>59803632
>She's afraid all her precious pictures, many of them with 3 or more duplicates, will be deleted if she gets a new computer.

Similar story with my mother.
Had been hoarding horrendous early 00s camera phone photos for a good while on her computer, jumping from system to another and increasing her stash of photos every year.
Never copied them on any externals though.
Starts using facebook and playing retarded online flash games. One day installs ransomware trough a sketchy flash game that she found.
Accepted her loss without a complaint though.

Another story regarding her.
>Uses facebook and instagram
>Hey! This celebrity is messaging me! Look at this!
>See that it's some famous country singer, 100% a scam trying to fish out her info.
>Tell her to cut all communication with this guy fucking now.
I'm terrified of leaving her alone with a computer. Facebook was the most detrimental thing that could have happened to her generation.
All of the personal info of these idiots online to be stolen and exploited.
I think that a online safety course for anyone over 40 should be mandatory.

>>59803526
Well, it's not really a scam.
Everything in that image is a true statement, except that you're going to need to do more than just use a VPN to stop people from tracking you.

>>59803526
>tfw with pajeet pai's new rules on ISP data it's actually true

>>59803526
The University of Viagra application in a email.

The best, when i received a email "from myself" so it dodged the spam filters.

>getting ads
>not using google ultron
plebians.

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>>59805059
Don't let everyone in on it anon

>>59804390
Stories like this makes me almost not sick of having parents that phone me every time something slightly weird happens to their cellphones.
>STEVE, WHAT THE FUCK IS PACMAN DOING ON MY MAPS?

>>59803526
these are far from "dumb"

the people running these ads are making a killing. it's an affiliate who is getting paid when someone signs up for the VPN they are shilling

>>59803603
What actually happened if you clicked them? I always wondered

>>59803526
>ublock origin
I doesn't block the malware in it's lists, malware still loads.
Some ads it just hides but it still loads them in the background

>>59805119
Jesus... I'm so on it.

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>>59806424
You usually got a survey and it asked for your credit card info.

>>59806606
Nice meme

>>59806712
malware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJ9ijHQ3ac
COSMETIC FILTERS ARE NOT BLOCKED just hidden.

4chan pass

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>Not clicking on shady adds and replying to shady emails just to see how far you get

>>59803753
>I mean, dont you literally have to run an exe file for that shit to take effect?
Not necessarily, there could be exploits used from programs you already have on your PC. Adobe flash is most common.

So all you would need to do is go on a website that has had their ad network hijacked, replaced with dodgy flash ads and there you have it, you got yourself some ransomware. As a matter of fact, there was a fairly recent case of this somewhere last year I believe. It was a major website as well, can't remember which one.

>>59803526
That ad actually isn't lying though, the gov can backtrack lots of shit you do online, your isp logs the sites you visit
Unless youre a kid diddler or a drug cartel then nobody gives a shit tho

>>59806855
>posting gifs in 2017

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>>59803526
> I am beautiful eastern Europe virgin girl
> True_love.png
> Every day I clean house, make sandwich and pleasure you
> Please send 5000 USD for passport and plane ticket

>>59803753
>I mean, dont you literally have to run an exe file for that shit to take effect?

Not really, things are just much more sophisticated nowadays but you'd be surprised at the amount of people that still fall for this thanks to the absolutely pants-on-head retarded Windows defaults:

>celebritynudes.jpg.exe
>hide known file extensions activated by default
>your average normie just sees "celebritynudes.jpg", clicks away and eagely dismisses through all UAC warnings to see dem titties

>You may be the victim of a credit fraud. Please enter your credit card number and expiration date to make sure your card is safe.

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>>59803526
Nearly everything to do with crowdfunding

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It ain't really a scam, nor virus in the proper sense of the word, but moth my grandpa and my mother constantly manage to get WinZip driver updater on their computers, begging for them to buy the full version. My mother handles it fine, just asks me what to do, grandpa always goes apeshit about his computer being outdated and insecure now.

My grandpa is a disgusting old perv who watches porn and dreams about finding prostitutes online, but my mother is pretty careful, so it must come from a somewhat legit source. I occasionally get a glimpse of both of their browsing histories, so I know,

It isn't, indeed, proper malware, just an annoying piece of nagging shit.

tl;dr I really want to know where the fuck it comes from.

>>59803526
My cousin fell for a "Limited time offer, $500 cruise around europe" phone scam.

Called up his aunty while I was helping out in their computer repair shop and asked for her credit card details. This was obviously common because she started reading the number before getting half way through and asking what it was for.

He's a great guy, but believes anything you tell him.

>>59808016
>Called up his mother, my aunt*

That was a good one.

>>59803628
this has to be one of the most successful shill campaigns in history.

>>59803632
why did she lose all of her pictures? it wasn't crypto malware right? just extract the files from the drive using another computer.

>>59807972
Also this, we've seen the success stories and products that came out of it with rose-tinted glasses, but in the beginning it was a scam festival.

>>59808125
>in the beginning
It still is. See the self-filling water bottle, solar roadways, the laser razor, crystal wash, the waterseer. It's either an outright scam or some braindead idiots who have a bad idea and other braindead idiots believe them.

>>59808120
>it wasn't cryptonalware right?
Anon, this reeks of classic ransomware. The skids want money, encrypting ensures that. Otherwise everyone who knows someone remotely /g/ could have them recover their data for them.

>>59808004
just use software restriction policy to block anything not in \Windows and \Program Files from running

>>59803577
I saw one a couple of weeks ago.
It had an animation for its borders that didn't loop properly, that drove me insane.

>>59808178
Still, not as blatant as in the early years before basic protections and sanity checks came in place, like requiring a working prototype for hardware and stuff like that.

>buy an used Thinkpad, it's a good laptop

>>59808178
People asking for $$$ via crowdfunding for tattoo removal so they can """get a job"""

>get this free antivirus scanner
>it will tell you just how fucked your system is.
>a shit ton of malware is detected, trust me, you need to pay us money so this magic number will change.

>>59808318
This actually isn't a dumb one desu, it is clever, actually. As long as the language isn't broken and the design of the nagware looks legit (even better if it looks like a part of the OS)

It really confuses clueless people . If I was going to do online nagscam, I'd do this.

>>59806834
I only got one so I can shitpost in countries where google, which means captcha, is banned

>>59806834
>scam
>you get exactly what you're offered

>>59803526
>Hot Sexy Moms in your neighborhood
>25km away from virginia
I don't even live near virginia, lol

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>>59808459

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>>59808178
Don't forget Pateron kids asking for free money so they could build a pc.

>>59808362
yea it is a brilliant system.
If I had to design a form of torture system, it wouldn't be much different than the v2 system of the captcha.
Maybe I should start working on v4 of the torture system.
Maybe a 3d simulation of the kids toy where you put a shape in a hole while you chant "I am not a child"

>>59803638
Yee, you have to actually have a way for people to win or else someone will take you to court and your wife's grandkids will still be paying off your settlement

I experimented with these once with a fresh install of Windows 7 using Internet Explorer. I clicked on every single advertisement possible. I was awaiting a flood of viruses but nothing happened... Ever... I was TRYING to get a virus at that point because I was so annoyed. I had no luck. I'm sure it's due to the advancement of technology because I remember the viruses Windows XP had. Granted you still had to execute them yourself but it was worse.

The websites seemed to use your insecurity against you. It was just Viagra offers and such. Each link would go to another link which would go to another link. It seemed that at most they wanted your credit card information... Or in other words, just looking for money. The websites themselves seemed "fine".

I guess that's all viruses these days.

>>59803526
That image won't be fake for long due to recent events...

Dumbest? I was going to say the check if your credit card has been stolen thing but that's actually genius when you think about it. It's so simple. People WILL fall for it because they'll be curious and want to protect their safety. Same with the fake antivirus software.

Dumbest I guess would be the stupid ones that are like your Android device is 77% infected or something. As if I care if my contacts get deleted or if my SIM card breaks.

>>59808491
[spoiler]Psst[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Anon[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You can enable legacy captchas in the settings on 4chan[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Ironic spoilers[/spoiler]

>>59808469
>See one of these
>Says person is 500 feet away from you
>Live alone in the middle of a 50 acer property surrounded by farms
>Grab shotgun

>>59808469
Saw one yesterday where it said she was located 3 meters away from me and was looking for sex. Creepy stalking girls are my fetish. Almost made me click.

every single ad on any porn site ever
prove me wrong

>>59806424
virus or malware, thanks iexplore

>>59803526
'Police' malware scam, the ones that lock your pc.

>>59808911
>claims I am ahold of cheese pizza
>hurr durr police begs for money or else..
>police uses ukash

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This was a real page on the """DEEPWEB"""

>>59803573
Name of the movie pls?

>>59803628
They were very successful because this was the time of IE, and chrome was actually light back then. Now it uses twice the ram of FF or IE lel

>>59803753
99% yeah. And there is the "I don't need updates XP runs fine" crowd that doesn't know why we get updates to begin with

>>59809336
yeah what retards lol everyone knows you need updates to keep ur system running fast xDDDD

>>59803638

Sounds like they are just selling ipads then

You can rip people off on ebay by doing that too

>>59809527
>uncle gets tons of spam text messages 24/7
>gets a FREE* iphone
>later find out he just signed up for a plan with some back alley mobile provider and he's gotta start paying tons of money for it
>ends up being he has to give them his bank details so they can direct debit each month for the phone plan or get taken to court
>gives them his bank details but whenever his unemployment money comes he just takes it out in cash
>gets in major shit
last i heard he was living on the streets lmao

>>59803632
I had the same experience with this shit

> be me, 15
> have an aunt who's knows fuck all about computers
> stay at hers one night since family I guess
> had this shitty dell desktop with windows xp
> was bored and decided to do some browsing
> she said her computer takes long to load and is very slow, asks me to help make it better
> I'm like whatever.gif
> first thing I see is all this fucking malware programs like some fucking fake Skype, or some fake chrome browser with bullshit malware ads.
> asked her why she downloads this shit since this is the problem
> she's convinced it's not them and they're her "programs" she needs to use
> fucking tells me not to delete them
> the moment I deleted all the obvious malware, defragged and cleaned pc with restart, shit was running normal
> gets mad at me for ruining her PC

fucking stupid aunts

>>59808486
>that picture
Jesus fuck. Cringe.

>>59809725
Should've just put a .Jpeg on the dekstop so she thought she still had it

>>59809611
What the fuck

>>59807887
Nowerdays they often use the Right-to-Left Override Character \u202E which is extremely hard to recognise unless you are using a cli.

>>59808980
>child porn user
>user
kek