Re: OT: spam phone calls

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

On 4/28/25 11:13 AM, Davey wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:33:17 +0100
Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:16:48 +0100
JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:
 

On 09/04/2025 11:45, Davey wrote: 

The one calling site that leaves a message is the one that claims
to be from some charge card company, and tells me that there are
two charges on the card, from businesses that I do not use.   

 
 
But never say which card!
 
 
 

 
Well, no, that would be too much information! It is always the same
message, with the same charges.
I have recently had a spate of: "Your package is ready for
pickup..." e-mail messages, and a couple of the "Thank you for
renewing your Norton 360 subscription." ones. Since I have been
exclusively a Linux user since 2010, that is well out of date!
 

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Yup, the Norton one I receive also. I am on Linux as well, and have
also been since 2010.

 
Somehow I got my Chromebook browser completely locked up saying I had a
 virus and to contact xxxx to get rid of it. However since it said it was a
 Windows 11 virus I wasn't too worried. But I was surprised that it was able
 to lock up the Chromebook completely so that I had to reboot it to recover.
 Perhaps Chrome stuff is not really as safe as advertised...

  We had something like that in 2019 on my wife's laptop, in which a
full page web page "Your system is infected with 3 viruses" seemed to
have locked up the (Windows 8.1) computer. However it turned out that
Ctrl-Alt-Del could still access Task Manager and Task Manager could End
the offending process.

  The page  had a Microsoft logo and "Windows" in the text, but no
Windows version. It also had 'Scan Now' and 'Press OK to begin the
repair process'. For some strange reason, I never tried those buttons.

  Of course there was no virus and it wasn't even a get-money/ransomware
thing, more an ads things.

  According to my notes, the main culprit was rackcdn.com.

  I found the 'official' term for a thing like this, malvertising.