The Breakdown of a Fake AV Scammer

What are the chances of a fake antivirus (AV) scammer calling a security vendor? Probably slim, until this week when one such scammer calls Noah Magram, principal software engineer with Sourcefire. After talking to a series of agents for 30 minutes, Noah fires up a virtual machine. The video starts when the scammers get access to his "computer."

(Note: Unfortunately, as Noah points out, scammers often try to use good services with bad intentions. Listen carefully as a few of these services are, indeed, legitimate.)

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[Howard King]

Awwww, man! You missed a chance to drive theses guys crazy by loading another VM, a reverted snapshot as HG#1 says, telling 'em that your system looks just fine, then have 'em log in again to check it. Repeat until they give up, then demand a refund as clearly you didn't need it!

[xnamkcor]

I liked the part where he manually unchecks the boxes when there is a "Disable All" Button.

[Comments2010]

LOL LMFAO ROFL I CANNOT STOP F•••ING LAUGHING!!! XD

[Matt Bortell]

I suggest looking up a password reset tool on google. There are ways to reset the password without having to boot into windows. My dad actually fell for the scam as well, luckily I was able to get to the computer before they did any damage. Make sure you leave the computer unplugged from the internet. I had to boot the computer into safe mode to delete the logmein program in the appdata folder. Scary stuff, but everything has been fixed. Wish you luck.

[VeZghen]

My brother was dumb enough to believe this and followed the scam through on our home computer up until the payment section where my dad found out and cut him short. Too bad the scammer already had remote access and locked up our computer with a password. Does anyone know how to bypass this password, or disable their remote access?

[Tubular Lemming]

Why didn't he just click disable all?

[carterdl196943]

Bravo

[carterdl196943]

Bravo!

[Nathan55411]

i wish i could prank a VM scammer. :/

[videocomputers]

instead of unchecking them..why cant victor just select disable all?

[DavidNorris1991]

Using VMware!!!! brilliant XD

[Peter Christensen]

i have call from one of does idiots and i work at a IT company