Circe
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- Jan 28, 2013
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I read some this morning about this Krugman-pedophile thing. Some people, incl. on reddit, think it's a known scam, as in somebody contacts you claiming to be your IT techs and want Amazon gift cards to "fix" the strange problem of obscenity on your computer. (Which they've put there.)
"So did Krugman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, out himself as a pedophile for the whole world to see? Highly unlikely. Instead, the 66-year-old writer likely fell for a ‘spearphishing’ scam, in which pop-up ads or emails warn gullible computer users that child porn has been found on their PC, usually accompanied with a request to hand over money to make the problem go away."
Krugman is not good with the Internet. In the late nineties he said that the Internet was a fad and would soon decline and go away. He's not good with predictions, either….
"So did Krugman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, out himself as a pedophile for the whole world to see? Highly unlikely. Instead, the 66-year-old writer likely fell for a ‘spearphishing’ scam, in which pop-up ads or emails warn gullible computer users that child porn has been found on their PC, usually accompanied with a request to hand over money to make the problem go away."
Krugman is not good with the Internet. In the late nineties he said that the Internet was a fad and would soon decline and go away. He's not good with predictions, either….