The Naperville Police Department is warning residents to be wary of CAPTCHA scams. The department shared information from the Federal Trade Commission on the topic in a Facebook post on Thursday. Identifying the scam The FTC says a new phishing scam uses what look like CAPTCHA requests, which are used to prove users are not robots on many sites. Real CAPTCHA tasks are image- or text-based, asking users to do tasks like matching pictures of traff…
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