{"id":18278,"date":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/you-could-lose-everything-off-your-computer-in-this-new-email-scam\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"you-could-lose-everything-off-your-computer-in-this-new-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/you-could-lose-everything-off-your-computer-in-this-new-email-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"You could lose everything on your computer in this new email scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adelaide TechGuy Richard Pascoe has alerted computer&nbsp;users to a brand new email scam he\u2019s seeing lock&nbsp;people in Adelaide out of their computers in large numbers.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere is an email that seems to have dropped this morning,\u201d Richard told Jeremy Cordeaux on FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s gone to a lot of places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an AGL electricity account. It is directed at you, so the email addresses are all legitimate. It hasn\u2019t come from AGL, but it looks like an AGL account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard warned anyone who receives the email not to open any links contained in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you click the links to view your bill on there, you will infect your computer with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CryptoLocker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CryptoLocker<\/a>, so everything is encrypted on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will ask for a ransom. You\u2019ve got to pay to get an encryption key back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/266895549&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Richard said the ransom could be anything from $300 to $2,000, but urged people not to pay it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t advise that. You\u2019ve got to make sure it\u2019s backed up on a regular basis. Don\u2019t pay the ransom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake sure you have a good backup strategy in place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended people contact their energy provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have got to be aware now. Go and say, \u2018AGL, don\u2019t send me a bill that way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do get this you have to wipe your computer back to factory settings\u2026 it is not a two second job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmails&nbsp;you\u2019ve got to always be suspicious of. If you don\u2019t think it was meant for you, it probably wasn\u2019t. That\u2019s what you\u2019ve got to live by now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard said a similar scam in the past had claimed to be from Australia Post, but wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably one of the new, better ones I\u2019ve seen come through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s coming from overseas, eastern Europe most of it\u2019s originating from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already been to two businesses today that have basically lost everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/jane-reilly-s-huge-uber-backfire\">JANE REILLY\u2019S HUGE UBER BACKFIRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/graham-cornes-picks-his-clear-premiership-favourite\">GRAHAM CORNES PICKS THE CLEAR PREMIERSHIP FAVOURITE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide TechGuy Richard Pascoe has alerted computer&nbsp;users to a brand new email scam he\u2019s seeing lock&nbsp;people in Adelaide out of their computers in large numbers. \u201cThere is an email that seems to have dropped this morning,\u201d Richard told Jeremy Cordeaux on FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s gone to a lot of places.\u201d \u201cIt is an AGL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-18278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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