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Carolina coward fesses up: I was a tech support scambag, and I made millions out of defrauding the elderly

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adware to scare victims

This is also a very lucrative business on Android:

March 7, 2019

"it said i had 4 viruses so i click on remove.. it takes me to play store to install [REDACTED] app which has bee on my phone for 2 weeks??? how can i have viruses when [REDACTED] is installed but i still get notices that i have 4 viruse???"

Source: Play Store reviews of [REDACTED]

(This has been going on for over 6 years now.)

Scary pop-up=$PROFIT!

Android=Dumpster Fire

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