Something wasn’t right about the phone screen. It had gone dark. That’s when Nick Harvey examined it more closely. It looked odd. And it was then that he saw the message.
His smart phone had, in effect, been hijacked and he was being asked to pay a ransom.
“My device had been locked”, he told BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme.
He was being instructed “to send some money via a voucher code to get the phone unlocked”.
Ken Main knows how Nick felt. It happened to him with the computers at his hairdressing salon in Glasgow. For the full article click here
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