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Technical support scam

Known as: Microsoft phone scam, Windows Service Center hoax, Fake technical support 
A technical support scam (often abbreviated tech support scam) refers to class of telephone fraud activities, in which a scammer claims to offer a… 
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2019
2019
System Usage Profiling Metrics for Notifications on Abnormal User Behavior
Due to greater media attention on security vulnerabilities more companies are investing in technical security. Even though… 
2017
2017
Flipping 419 Scams: Targeting the Weak and the Vulnerable
Most of cyberscam-related studies focus on threats perpetrated against the Western society, with a particular attention to the… 
2016
2016
Creating urgency in tech support scam telephone conversations
2015
2015
Avoiding Telemarketing Scams—Ten Tips For Seniors
2013
2013
Scams africains: entre jeu affectif et argumentation
Le scam africain est une fraude egalement connue sous le nom de scam 419. Tres frequente actuellement, elle se diffuse… 
2009
2009
Avoiding Fraud: Tips for Individuals
Fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual. Deceptions or scams abound, trying to… 
2007
2007
Tropical cyclone warm core as observed from the ADEOS-II advanced microwave scanning radiometer
Brightness temperatures at frequencies V = 50.3 and 52.8 GHz at vertical (V) polarization measured by the ADEOS-II AMSR over… 
2004
2004
ScamSlam: An Architecture for Learning the Criminal Relations Behind Scam Spam
Unsolicited communications currently accounts for over sixty percent of all sent e-mail with projections reaching the mid… 
1993
1993
Defrauding AIDS patients: federal felony statute may be necessary to curb multiplying scams.
1970
1970
Mucous Envelope Formation in Two Species of Hawaiian Parrotfishes (Genus Scarus)
Some parrotfishes have developed a unique capacity to form a mucous envelope at night. Scams dubius and S. perspicillams are two… 
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