OneWingedBird
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This story was told to me by a work colleague recently, I'm curious though if it's actually a thing.
Colleague reckons she found a laptop in the street under her car so se picked it up, took it inside and powered it up to see if she could find out who it belonged to so that she could return it.
There's a name set up on the computer so she searches it on Facebook and finds the person whose in her area, she asks him a few times where to return it to but he won;t say.
Then the bugger remotes into the computer and takes control of it and starts kicking off with her about her having his laptop. :O She shuts it down and promply changes her wifi password.
If accurate this sounds like some sort of scam, guessing the idea is to nick a laptop to use, set it up to accept remote access then leave it somewhere in the hope that someone takes it home and keeps it, then they harvest passwords, logins, credit card info and potentially blackmail material.
As I said to my colleague, I probably wouldn't take a found laptop home just in case there was something really nasty on it. Some people would though and might not realise to reformat it.
Has anyone else heard of something similar?
Colleague reckons she found a laptop in the street under her car so se picked it up, took it inside and powered it up to see if she could find out who it belonged to so that she could return it.
There's a name set up on the computer so she searches it on Facebook and finds the person whose in her area, she asks him a few times where to return it to but he won;t say.
Then the bugger remotes into the computer and takes control of it and starts kicking off with her about her having his laptop. :O She shuts it down and promply changes her wifi password.
If accurate this sounds like some sort of scam, guessing the idea is to nick a laptop to use, set it up to accept remote access then leave it somewhere in the hope that someone takes it home and keeps it, then they harvest passwords, logins, credit card info and potentially blackmail material.
As I said to my colleague, I probably wouldn't take a found laptop home just in case there was something really nasty on it. Some people would though and might not realise to reformat it.
Has anyone else heard of something similar?