hacked by the (alleged) `amazon-security' scammers

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 15:45, hput via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> In the end I've decided to use the "Very Large Hammer" suggested in
> the thread. These are well used disks and have served well, so, I'll
> take this as the opportunity to get some new hardware...

:-o

I hate to hear of anyone destroying working hardware.

Ignore the super-extra-paranoid: once you've formatted that PC and put
Linux on it, there will be no trace of anything any scammers put on
the machine.

Those guys are not very smart. If they were, they wouldn't be working
for scammers. They do not and could not modify firmware or anything. I
have many friends in the techie world and some of us play games with
scammers, trying to see how long we can string them along.

This guy tricked the scammers into installing ransomware on their own PCs:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/15/tech-support-scammer-tricked-into-installing-ransomware/

There have been tutorials on how to sucker them for a decade:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-troll-a-scammer

These days they're usually lured into trying to hack a VM. There's a free guide:
https://github.com/Catterall/Scambaiting-Setup

Don't worry. You don't need to destroy your drives, or your PC. Once
it has the partitions deleted, new Linux ones put on instead, and they
have been formatted -- which is part of the installation process --
that PC is *clean*. 100% guaranteed or your money back.

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