Dear All Researchers, This is a new scam. be aware of it. Do not pay them 1$.
Also i wonder why they are doing it? we research community in my humble opinion are regarded in terms of caring of customer info, but scammers are also targeting this.
Anyone doing research on these type of scammers? how to avoid them? this is a totally new technique.
Technique in a scenes, they will not send you an email. It will popup on your browser, while you are searching something.
Well, it's upon you to protect yourself.
There will always be people either just crossing the line or outright trying to rob you.
They might be doing it for money directly, i.e. to collect these bucks one by one from as many people as they can. They can also be trying to rob you of your sensitive data, or to compromise your computer. They would then sell the data or access to the computer to others, who make big bucks on it.
There is no such thing as a lunch for free. Do not believe any of them ads and when you see them popping up on your screen, do the only reasonable thing - hit "Esc" or quit the browser, if it does not help. Do not touch anything in the popped-up window. Remember, do not touch it. Just kill it by any means.
Last, but not least, enable pop-up window blocking, disable tracing of your activity, disable Java script (you can always enable it on specific pages you deem secure), and install ad-blocker from a trusted source. If you wish to do even more, use some sort of safe browser, such as Tor.
There are a lot of donations made on the internet. Often, difficult to separate need from greed.
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