
11-10-2008, 11:43 AM
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The €10 million a month scareware scam
Fake antivirus software is nothing new. Indeed, one South Korean chap called Lee Shin-ja was recently arrested and charged with doing the virtual equivalent of running into a room, shouting fire and then selling fire extinguishers that might or might not work. He was charged with selling a total of 1.26 million licenses for an antivirus product to clean computers of non-existent infections in a three year period. A nice little earner that is said to have netted him around €7.5 million in total.
But that pales into insignificance with the latest report coming out of the PandaLabs which suggest that a total of 30 million computers have been infected......
IT PRO: Blogs: Davey Winder: The €10 million a month scareware scam
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