CG: The Science of Scams
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The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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We’re re-airing one of our favorite episodes from last year -- we breakdown how scams works, the signs of a scam, and how you can protect yourself with Fool.com's resident detective, Matthew Cochrane.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Friday Tech Show host Dylan Lewis here. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to be re-erring an episode from last summer on today's show. |
| 0:06.0 | It is truly one of my favorites that we've ever done. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a look at the dark underbelly of the internet, |
| 0:12.0 | how you can protect yourself, and it features some voice |
| 0:14.7 | acting from several fools. The whole story starts with a message I received in my old college |
| 0:20.2 | email last August. |
| 0:22.2 | New message from Sheldon Figueroa. |
| 0:24.0 | Subject, alert for... |
| 0:26.0 | I won't beat around the bush. |
| 0:28.0 | I do know Fis your password. |
| 0:30.0 | More importantly, I'm aware about your secret and I have proof of this. |
| 0:34.5 | You don't know me and no one employed me to investigate you. |
| 0:37.6 | It's just your misfortune that I found your blunder. |
| 0:39.7 | The truth is, I actually set up a malware on the adult vids parentheses adult porn and you visited |
| 0:45.0 | this site to experience fun parentheses you know what I mean while you were watching |
| 0:49.5 | videos your internet browser started functioning as a RDP, parentheses remote desktop that has a key |
| 0:55.6 | logger which gave me accessibility to your screen and also web camera. |
| 0:59.8 | Immediately after that my software collected your complete contacts from your FB, as well as mailbox. |
| 1:05.5 | I then gave in much more time than I should have exploring into your life and created a two-screen |
| 1:10.2 | video. |
| 1:11.2 | First part displays the recording you had been watching and second part displays the view of your |
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