When a loved one falls victim to a romance scam

Tahina Leach's 79-year-old grandmother is convinced she's speaking with a famous Ecuadorian musician and has sent him thousands of dollars.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/when-loved-ones-fall-for-romance-scams/106491118

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RE: https://nanaimo.social/@local/116222174394645665

Jeepers. First it was ‘phishing’, then ‘smishing’. Now there’s ‘vishing’?!!

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If a stranger approached you on the street and asked if you could unlock your phone and run a few commands you'd think they were a criminal or hacker, and you'd be right. Every day people are being fooled into click-fix attacks and it often works like this.

1. You visit a site and are requested to "verify" you're human.
2. A pop-up requests a user press Ctrl-R and enter commands.
3. Those commands, often PowerShell, pull down executables and setup remote access.

To avoid being caught by click-fix scams never accept advice from strangers and treat all sites with skepticism.

For more security tips, checkout my new book, How MICE Threaten Cyber Security. Available at Amazon .

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Not sure who needs to hear this but if you send me important business messages via #SMS I’m going to assume it’s a scam. I’m not updating my auto insurance or trying a new home broadband plan via text message. If you’re someone I actually do business with, you have my #email.

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Always worth a post when so many scams are out there. Beware QR codes!!!

Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yznmv3gzo