Online Blackmailers Scam ult Web Users of $50,000 Via Extortion.887.887 Figure 2 Bleeping Computer Photo Courtesy More than $50,000 has been raised from 30 different users in the latest scam in the form of a cryptocurrency. Gullible users fall for scam emails and do not want online disclosure of their association with adult websites and end up paying the extortionists what they want. All payments were sent to three accounts belonging to the scammers in the extorsion racket. To order to make the threats sound credible the scammers cited malware was installed on the user Pcs and a fake webcam video was sent to users from a user browsing adult websites. If you’ve sent these extortion letters, it’s recommended that you seek legal aid and report to the Fbi in the official cybercrime portal guide to spot a cryptocurrency scam to stop extortion. Grip. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Backs Out of His Legal Battle Against Fortnite
ByNitish Singh-June 27, 2018.888 Figure 1 Picture Courtesy of the creators of KnowTechie PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Bluehole Studios has supported and dropped its lawsuit against the famous royal battle game Fortnite publisher Epic Games. The fight between the two battle royale giants seems to have ended in a draw, with the case being dropped. The developers behind successful battle royale game Bluehole Studios PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dropped their lawsuit against Fortnite from Epic Games. Last year Epic Games launched its own take on the battle royale genre in the form of Fortnite Battle Royale with Pubg gaining massive popularity. Epic Games ‘ game managed to surpass Pubg’s success in no time due to multiple factors including lower hardware requirements and building mechanics including its free-to-play model. Both of these games are based on Unreal Engine 4 from Epic Games. The Pubg developers expressed their intention to take on Fortnite and other royal fighting games that led to multiple lawsuits filed against many genre games including the title of Epic Games. Bluehole Studios believed that Fortnite was guilty of copying Pubg and not only split the gaming industry but also the topic’s fans. Although Pubg has made the genre popular, it is not the first royal battle game, and Fortnite has its own unique features that make it stand out. Despite the differences, the case went forward with Pubg developers Bluehole and owner Tencent. With an accusation of copyright infringement, both Tencent and Bluehole Studios are unlikely to hold up in court. Fortnite recently expanded at a rapid paceSony that blocks cross-play between Ps4 owners and Nintendo Switch owners. Grip. False Listings on Google Maps is still a growing problem
ByBill Toulas-June 24, 2019.889 Google eliminates false Google Maps in the millions, but they tend to pop out. For each fake listing, business owners pay up to $99 but many are asked for more. Fake business listings on Google Maps have been around since the online mapping service launched in 2005 and irrespective of the tech giant’s continuing and strenuous attempts to root them out they are still there. These listings can ruin someone’s day, or simply cause trouble to other competing services in the area. Very often this is the whole point of reporting a false listing on Google Maps as these are not really the consequences of innocent mistakes. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some businesses are intentionally placed at the wrong location just to be next to a competitor. That means somebody who is searching for a particular service can also find them and even if the address is not quite the right one, it may still be enough to “steal” that potential customer. Many reasons have to do with the exposure that companies are getting on Google Maps and the impact this has on the ranks of Google Search. When you introduce a branch to a high interest area, your company will rank higher and your website will have a lot of traffic to it. Some pay fraudster marketers are paying tens of thousands of dollars to get better visibility according to the Wsj report. In many of these cases, the crooks decide to ask for even more and if they don’t get it they flood Google Maps with fake listings around the business owner’s real address, resulting in a victim’s tragedy. In another instance, a lawyer found out a competitor’s office had posted 108 listings that were mostly false and they all allocated phone numbers that redirected calls back to a single office. Google is battling an epidemic as fraudsters who are adding a regular $99 fee for each of the fake listings and they can’t easily quit. In a recent post where they explain how they deal with this issue Google says they took down more than 3 million fake business profiles with 90 percent being removed before anyone even saw them on Maps. Maps users have reported how critical it is for us to flag fake businesses out of these 250000. The disturbing aspect was that in 2018, the number of fraudsters rose by 50% (compared to the previous year) to 150,000 user accounts.ByBill Toulas-June 24, 2019.889 Google eliminates false Google Maps in the millions, but they tend to pop out. For each fake listing, business owners pay up to $99 but many are asked for more. Fake business listings on Google Maps have been around since the online mapping service launched in 2005 and irrespective of the tech giant’s continuing and strenuous attempts to root them out they are still there. These listings can ruin someone’s day, or simply cause trouble to other competing services in the area. Very often this is the whole point of reporting a false listing on Google Maps as these are not really the consequences of innocent mistakes. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some businesses are intentionally placed at the wrong location just to be next to a competitor. That means somebody who is searching for a particular service can also find them and even if the address is not quite the right one, it may still be enough to “steal” that potential customer. Many reasons have to do with the exposure that companies are getting on Google Maps and the impact this has on the ranks of Google Search. When you introduce a branch to a high interest area, your company will rank higher and your website will have a lot of traffic to it. Some pay fraudster marketers are paying tens of thousands of dollars to get better visibility according to the Wsj report. In many of these cases, the crooks decide to ask for even more and if they don’t get it they flood Google Maps with fake listings around the business owner’s real address, resulting in a victim’s tragedy. In another instance, a lawyer found out a competitor’s office had posted 108 listings that were mostly false and they all allocated phone numbers that redirected calls back to a single office. Google is battling an epidemic as fraudsters who are adding a regular $99 fee for each of the fake listings and they can’t easily quit. In a recent post where they explain how they deal with this issue Google says they took down more than 3 million fake business profiles with 90 percent being removed before anyone even saw them on Maps. Maps users have reported how critical it is for us to flag fake businesses out of these 250000. The disturbing aspect was that in 2018, the number of fraudsters rose by 50% (compared to the previous year) to 150,000 user accounts.