On 12/14/20 18:23, Ryland Kremeier wrote:
I would have to disagree. Considering the amount of people who have
bitcoin, and even less the amount of people who farm it, or have
farmed it before it became so difficult. It seems much more likely
that the wide-spread infiltrations of every-day systems is for
information and DDoS over bitcoins.
I seriously doubt it’s that hard to sell information to companies, as
they most likely don’t care how you got that information.
If information wasn’t key, whether it be for selling to another party,
or scraping that data for easy to social engineer targets; then I also
don’t think that fraudulent calls would be so prevalent these days.
Where the main target is older people who will fall for their basic
tricks and end up losing potentially thousands per person.
Tend to agree.
Despite all the advice and mindless videos out there to help people
protect their data and/or not fall for basic scams, a lot of people
still do.
Humans' capacity to want to believe in and trust others is a strong
avenue that the scammers exploit to get paid. More so the older folk,
yes, but even the young, tech-savvy; particularly those who have been
too busy flipping between apps to realize that the Internet can be a
dangerous place.
You'd be surprised how innovative and simple these scams are, and
actually becoming less and less sophisticated, which makes them even
more dangerous.
Mark.
