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Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.
Romana Leyva, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ariful Haque, 33, of Bellerose, New York, were each charged this week with one count of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum of 20 years in the clink.
According to prosecutors in southern New York, Leyva and Haque masterminded a classic tech-support scam that warned netizens their computers were infected with malware that didn't actually exist, and would need a costly, and yet entirely unnecessary, repair.
We all know this type of scam: phony "system alert" pop-up ads in web browsers that ..
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