The last piece of ‘evidence’ the crooks give in this attack is to ‘prove’ that they do have access to your computer by including a password of yours. The crooks also claim to have infected your computer with malware by implanting it on the website you supposedly visited.Īgain, what they describe is theoretically possible but it’s not what actually happened in this case – it’s just more made-up scare tactics.
However, in this case, the crooks don’t have a RAT on your computer – the story about remote control malware is just that: a story to scare you into paying up.
That sort of malware does exist, and it’s often referred to by the term RAT, short for Remote Access Trojan. The scam version we’re discussing here looks like this:Īs you can see, the crooks justify their claim to have both browser screenshots and stolen webcam footage by saying they’ve planted remote control malware on your computer.
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