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Be care when you received any zipped file/ compressed file. 

Today, I received this message from a buyer that come from a country that starts with “P”. Haha 

There are some red flags, from the way he writes. Why he asked me to open in PC ? Why I can’t preview PDF in my mobile? 


Then when I opened the Dropbox , and yep, there is a SCR file ( the malware ) disguise as PDF. 


I was hacked before by the same method , accidentally download the SCR file and the next day, all my account balance disappeared the next day. ( you can see my past forum, if you are interested , wink). And from then, I was particular cautious about compressed file. As fiverr is not able to scan them. 

Found another buyer trying to hack my account

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