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Now, this is an older one, but
it's a really good example.

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So this went around quite
a bit several years ago.

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You would surf the internet.

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All of a sudden this
big, scary FBI logo

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would come up on your computer
in big, bold, red letters,

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"Your computer has been locked.

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This operating system is locked
due to a violation of Federal

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law of the United States of
America, Article 1, Section

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8, Clause 8, Article 202,
Article 210 of the criminal US.

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USA provides deprivation of
liberty of 4 to 12 years."

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So it's scary.

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It says the FBI has
my computer locked.

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And I violate these
articles, and I can

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go to jail for 4 to 12 years.

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And they have my IP address.

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And I was visiting
a website that

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had either pornography,
child pornography, zoophilia,

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or child abuse.

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And I can't get out
of this, and they're

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going to come after me
unless I pay them $200.

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Well, I've seen
people and I dealt

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with people who
actually got this

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- and they were freaking
out - even though they

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were on a legitimate website.

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They were not actually surfing
any of these horrific sites

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that it mentions on here.

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But still, the threat that
your computer's locked,

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the FBI has it, and
they think that you went

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to these horrible websites.

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And you need to pay a fine.

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So this is using fear, and
it's also using authority

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- fear that your
computer has been locked,

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and you might go to
jail, and that you're

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looking at these horrific things
whether you were or were not.

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Authority - well,
obviously, FBI - the FBI

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is going to throw me in jail.

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Now, what would happen is
they would walk you through.

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You would get $200
and a green pack,

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which is essentially
wiring money.

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And it would go to some other
hacker or criminal organisation

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that would collect money.

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So this is scary,
because, again, it

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kind of did lock your computer.

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You can do a Windows
Control Delete

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and just close the
browser, but it

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made it really hard to
actually close out the window.

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And it looked really legitimate,
because it has the FBI logo,

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and it's naming off all these
different legal articles

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to kind of scare you.

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Now, again, this is using
fear, and it's using authority.

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And it's forcing you
to act immediately,

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because your computer is locked.

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And if you don't take action
immediately to pay this fine,

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they're coming after you.

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Well, again, this is
amygdala hijacking.

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It's trying to
force you and scare

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you to take action without
actually sitting and thinking.

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Now, if you sit back
and think for a while,

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you could think about,
well, one, no, I

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didn't visit any
of these websites.

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Two, that's unusual that
the FBI or law enforcement

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is going to warn me that, hey,
we're going to come after you.

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So just sit tight,
and we're going

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to be coming to your
house to arrest you.

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Also, I have never heard of
any law enforcement agency that

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is going to force
you to pay this fine

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or go to jail by telling
you, hey, well, you

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could avoid 4 years in
jail, 4 to 12 years in jail,

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if you just wire us money.

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Well, that's weird,
because if you

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pay a fine, at least
in the United States,

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to the police or
whatnot, well, generally,

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you don't send a
money order to them.

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So with everything
said and done,

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the police, and
especially FBI, are not

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going to send you a, well,
somewhat friendly message

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like this if you did something
really horrific like this.

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They're most likely just going
to show up at your doorstep,

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at your home, or at your
workplace, and arrest you.

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So this was a pretty scary
social engineering attack,

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social engineering, and
using fear and authority.

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