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Now imagine you arrive at one of these sites and it tells you that you dont have the latest Flash Player so you cant watch that funny video, but not to worry click here and you can get your upgraded player immediately。 Not only will this upgrade be malware but that malware will go on to send messages to all your friends telling them to go see the funny video。 The fourth scam of Christmas is the current news scam People will use major world events to scam you out of money, regardless of how sad the event may have been. We saw it with Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines。 Difficult to believe in a season of goodwill but before the aid agencies had reached the poor people affected there were already scam emails and associated websites asking you to donate。 They look genuine but dont be fooled. The money goes nowhere but to the scammers。 The fifth scam of Christmas is the illegal cracked download Many will be buying laptops or other computing devices for under the tree。 They are expensive and there are many tempting offers to buy incredibly cheap operating systems, office products or other tasty goodies. There are even more tempting opportunities to download free copies of cracked pirated software。 However, not only are you likely to find that the download is an illegal copy - and may not actually run or has an invalid key - but also that it comes with a hidden present: malware。 | 
