I had this a couple of months ago. I recognized it for what it was right away and giggled. But then cringed that there are so many people that would fall for this.
It’s not surprising that there are people who would believe that any police agency, anywhere, ever, would do somelike this – that child porn would only carry a fine of a few hundred bucks.
What’s scary is that there must be a lot of people who pay it, or it wouldn’t still be out there. Which is to say, people who have reason to believe their computer has been used to view child porn.
I receive daily one or two computers infected with the Greek version of this malware. The easiest 20 euros for malware cleaning service. It is a widely spread malware here in Greece, now on it’s 8th or 9nth iterration.
I had this a couple of months ago. I recognized it for what it was right away and giggled. But then cringed that there are so many people that would fall for this.
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
this message exist, in every language with every police / justice logo , NEVER pay for that .
Confirmed; Poland has Police version instead of DoJ
I’ve never seen it but wouldn’t mind seeing it.
It’s not surprising that there are people who would believe that any police agency, anywhere, ever, would do somelike this – that child porn would only carry a fine of a few hundred bucks.
What’s scary is that there must be a lot of people who pay it, or it wouldn’t still be out there. Which is to say, people who have reason to believe their computer has been used to view child porn.
I receive daily one or two computers infected with the Greek version of this malware. The easiest 20 euros for malware cleaning service. It is a widely spread malware here in Greece, now on it’s 8th or 9nth iterration.
We have had at least three machines, with the Canadian version, come into the shop in the last week or so.
The name made me think this is Dutch. MoneyPak would roughly translate to MoneyGrab 😉