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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Usually I warn my 81 year old dad about these scams. Don't think I need to worry about this one, he wouldn't be tech savvy enough to find the windows button

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago

Kinda brilliant to disguise malware as a captcha, though. I won’t be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

its not working, my krunner bind is windows+d

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I have fn lock on for volume and brightness, so that becomes Alt+FN+F2

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ah, think this is like one of those survey scams.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

Instructions were unclear, ransomware dev now owes me 0.15 bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is extremely hilarious

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago

Except for the fact that a lot of less tech savvy people will fall for it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago
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