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On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, bad apple wrote: > why the scamming companies haven't yet > been blacklisted by the evil credit card companies is a bit of a > mystery. Because from the CC companies' point of view, they are hard to distinguish from legitimate companies offering IT support. And there are lots of them: after a few complaints they may close down the account, but that won't make a great difference to the problem. > I've not yet had a chance to analyse a machine hit by one of > these scams to see what their choice of malware/rootkit payload is but > I'd guess it's probably something hacked up from the usual Russian > crimeware kits like blackhole, etc. Yes, if they were to install some malware, I would think it is some kind of pay-per-install stuff. If at all - perhaps they only charge you for doing nothing. And for all I know, some may actually fix some things. Unlikely but not impossible. This is interesting by the way: http://indiancallcenterscam.blogspot.com/ Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq