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Tens of thousands of viewers watched a fake Apple crypto scam on YouTube
Someone on YouTube was live streaming an old interview with Tim Cook that was seemingly being used to attract attention to a crypto scam — and when it was live, tens of thousands of viewers were tuning.
If you’ve seen crypto scams on YouTube before, you would have recognized a lot of hallmarks of what was going on. The fake live stream was getting attention by filling its description with an array of Apple keywords in both the title and description. But when you actually opened it up, it was filled with odd messages linking to a shady-looking crypto site.
The stream had plenty of signs of being fake. It had a strange title — “Apple Event Live. Ceo of Apple Tim Cook: Apple & Metaverse in 2022.” — and it’s was…
Left 4 Dead 2 launches on mobile, but it’s a scam
Left 4 Dead 2 Mobile sounds like a dream come true. Of all the ways to pass the time on a busy commute, or while you’re camped outside your local game shop in protest of the disappearance of Half-Life 3, teaming up with three pals to once again tear through Valve’s iconic survival horror game sounds like the best. But if you see it on the App Store, steer well clear – this is not the beloved FPS that you know from Steam.
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Urgent Facebook warning over Marketplace scam that could cost you thousands
FACEBOOK users have been warned to be wary of a Marketplace scam that could end up costing you thousands.
Catfish host Nev Schulman is using his expertise in the art of deception to help people stay safe from online tricks.
Scammers are now preying on unsuspecting Facebook Marketplace users[/caption]
He believes Brits are most vulnerable while innocently cruising Facebook Marketplace to bag a bargain.
Lulled into a false of security on the networking app, its nearly three billion users are prime targets for fraudsters, he fears.
And Nev suggests it’s because “we’re all still beginners” when it comes to navigating selling apps such as Facebook Marketplace, Vinted, Depop and eBay.
The 37-year-old MTV star has partnered with mobile-banking app Zelle to educate users on how to identify and avoid scams.
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He told Yahoo News: “Scammers target sellers on marketplaces because the average internet sale or seller probably hasn’t done it many times.
“Facebook Marketplace probably being one of the biggest [for scams] just because Facebook has the most users.
“If you don’t know the simple few red flags to look out for it can be easy to fall victim.”
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Nev warned people to watch out for a common scam used by fraudsters.
Scammers may often send strange messages to unsuspecting buyers on platforms such as Facebook Marketplace, claiming to be from the social network themselves.
Users are then typically asked to click on a link to confirm their information.
Due to being eager to secure their item, many naive buyers end up unknowingly giving scammers their personal details.
Another warning sign Nev urged buyers and sellers to look out for is eagerness, a lack of negotiation and no questions asked.
Con artists then offer to pay for their purchase through a money transfer app, before claiming it didn’t go through because the seller needs to update their account.
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A link is then sent asking the user to pay a small fee for the payment to proceed – followed by a fake email from a non-existent firm asking you to confirm the transaction.
We previously told how Facebook issued their own warning regarding scams amid an influx of complaints in recent months.
Walmart Lists a 30TB Portable SSD for Just $39. It’s a Scam
Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that makes it misreport its size… when you go to WRITE a big file, hacked firmware simply writes all new data on top of old data, while keeping directory (with false info) intact.
Ars Technica goes over the details:
On the inside, this “SSD” looks like two small-capacity microSD cards hot glued to a USB 2.0-capable board. This board’s firmware has been modified so that each of these cards reports its capacity as “15.0TB” to the operating system, for a total of 30TB, even though the actual capacity of the cards is much lower…. It preserves the directory structure of whatever you’re copying, but when it’s “copying” your data, it just keeps writing and rewriting over the tiny microSD cards.
Everything will look fine until you go to access a file, only to find that the data isn’t there.
Replies to Ray Redacted’s thread are full of alternate versions of this scam, including multiple iterations of the hot-glued microSD version and at least one that hid a USB thumb drive inside a larger enclosure. Fake USB storage devices are neither new nor rare, though this one makes spectacularly egregious claims about its price-per-gigabyte. When it comes to buying storage online, common-sense advice is best: stick to name brands, buy from trustworthy sellers…. and know that if a deal seems too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.