[Bigiron]

Scammers use trojan horse virus to dupe 79-year-old man into losing $173k of life savings

 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/c...fe-savings

[Alice Alicia]

Eventually there's a price to pay for stupidity. 🙄

[Wy:Nox]

How did they manage to block his laptop in the first place?

[teaserteam]

How did they manage to block his laptop in the first place?

Possibilities:

1. Activation of Trojan software download before;
2. Remote desktop access to the Computer turned on

[moonrab]

Probably his Microsoft account was hacked or his computer.

[Sentinel]

How did they manage to block his laptop in the first place?

His laptop is not blocked

Surfing all those porn sites as well as installing anti virus software will download trojans and worms

That page can just be closed off or just exit the browser

[p1acebo]

I have occassionally encountered potential scams on the Net, FB and even on my mobile, and have soundly @$**%(@#$ fcuked them with the choicest of vulgarities