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He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam
He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam It might be emotionally painful for some to learn that a Bergen County man lost nearly $150,000 to a “your computer has been hacked” scam. Sadly, it’s true. The victim got a computer popup message “alerting” him to the purported hack earlier this month, Glen Rock Police Lt. Frank Riggio said. “Over the following days, he was advised to secure a large sum of money from his bank accounts to avoid further hacking,” the lieutenant said. The victim gave the con artist nearly 150 large "under the false pretense that this party was helping protect the victim from further financial hacking," Rigg…

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by Jerry DeMarco