Prepare for Scammer Tactics

Between phishing emails and phone scammers, the landscape around attacks on computing devices has gotten both more and less sophisticated. Many times, even protective services you run on your computing device are not going to help to deter these attacks nor to find and warn you before you have given up sensitive information (normally username and password) or money.

Fahmida Rashid of PCWorld recently published an extensive article where she has been playing prey for phone scammers in order to learn how they operate and what things to be looking out for.

Pleas read What I learned playing prey to Windows scammers and take to heart any tidbits which might help thwart these attacks in the future!