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Submission + - Rogue Anti-virus Victims Rarely Fight Back (krebsonsecurity.com)

krebsonsecurity writes: One big reason why rogue anti-virus continues to make major bucks for scam artists? Relatively few victims ever ask their credit card company or bank to reverse the charges for the phony security software — even when the victims don't even receive the worthless software they were promised. I recently found several caches of data for affiliates of a rogue anti-virus distribution program, and the data showed that in one set of attacks only 367 out of more than 2,000 scammed disputed the charge. A second rogue anti-virus campaign scammed more than 1,600 people, and yet fewer than 10 percent fought the charges.
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Rogue Anti-virus Victims Rarely Fight Back

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