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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I was looking at the Will Rogers' quote about some animal eating a bull. Or something like that. It was in a frame of some kind. I mean the quote.
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Based on what you described, I believe the webpage that you visited was a fraudster’s website. The visual and audio warnings you observed are part of the features of the webpage similar to a pop-up advertisement on a legitimate website.
Fraudster’s like this typically are an organized crime organization in a foreign country, not someone sitting in mom’s basement.
The FBI classifies this kind of internet crime as call center fraud. The link below is to the latest annual FBI report on internet crime. Call center fraud is covered on page 16. Your scam was the tech support call center kind. Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost each year to this kind of fraud according to the report.
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/Annual..._IC3Report.pdf