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“Your money or your life!” —Nasty tricks Internet blackmailers use

Online fraudsters keep finding ever new ways to get their hands on your money — quite frequently involving blackmail. Protect yourself!

Whether they threaten to encrypt all of their victims’ computer data or to infect their family with the corona virus: Criminals can be very creative when trying to squeeze money out of Internet users.

The new Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts article describes some current blackmailing methods and effective counter-measures to take. Don’t fall for those fraudsters!

Nasty tricks Internet blackmailers use

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