Thursday, September 18, 2008

New internet scam appears

Scammers are now targeting people by phone and pretending to be pursuing copyright infringers. This looks like a response to activity by UK Law firm DAvenport Lyons pursuing people who have illegaly downloaded a pinball game.
The scam involves a phone call and demands for money - presumably the crooks think that most internet users have probably illegally downloaded music or other files from web.

ISPs have confrimed that if you are going to be approached about copyright infringment, it will be by letter.

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