Security Expert Fools, Records Fake Antivirus Scammers

[ronjor]

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading

Phony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home -- he exposes their obvious lack of technical know-how

http://www.darkreading.com/threat-in...-scammers.html

[Dark Shadow]

I like that story + 1 for the good guys HA HA the scammers got played. Thank you ronjor.

[kupo]

Nice share, ahahahaha!

Why don't I ever get calls like that?

BTW, traceroute and whois say the offending address is located in the Virgin Islands. Not sure whether that's accurate, I'm not a network wiz.