"Today when I started to check my email, I had a screen show up from the Department of Justice. It indicates that they found pornographic material on my computer and child pornography (which the child part is BS). The computer is locked up and the only way that you can unlock the computer is to pay the fine of $300.00. You have to go to a Drug Store and get a $300.00 cash card. You put the number of the cash card in the system and when they get the cash they will unlock the computer. Everything looked very official. I talked to several people describing the situation. A company said that this is a known scam and that they would charge $65 per hour to find and remove the software which was in the operating system start up program. I got hold of McAfee which I have their virus protection software. Finally made the person on the other side understand, and they provided me with down loaded software that would find the scam software and remove it. Of course this is after three hours of working on the solution. They indicated that it had to be a downloaded file from someone which loaded out the software. So if you get the message and don't have McAfee, you can order it online and they will download it to you. Since the computer is locked up, you have to turn off the computer and on the startup pick start up in safe mode with networking. This will allow you to temporarily get around the scam software".

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Yes, I've heard of this scam before. Was your McAfee up to date?

The local shop of wire heads that was going to fix everything indicated that approximately 20% of the affect individuals fall for the scam.

And you are probably correct on the Wheel part.

That's the part that blows my mind.

Guess they had child porn.