Video: IE8 creates online scams offline in New York and dupe customers

Yeah that is what happened exactly. Internet Explorer 8 created the kind of scams that are available online, offline. To show security vulnerabilities that people come up against everyday. A totally fake bank and inheritance store was created from scratch and customers were invited in. The bank announced a reward of $500 just for opening an account and many people went for it. Believing it and giving up personal information like their Social Security numbers and hair samples for DNA testing. 


IE8 Says that this was done to show how people get fooled online especially with the Nigerian scams that all of us have come across. Anyway people do fall for those scams still and give away their vital information to total strangers and tricksters. 


They also say that over 900 online scams are reported everyday. The video also illustrates how online phishing scams work.


The video is also a cleaver piece of work to get uses to continue with Internet Explorer 8 and not switch to other browsers like Chrome and Firefox. 

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