Don't fall victim to the 'Free Wi-Fi' scam

[adrian]

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The next time you're at an airport looking for a wireless hot spot, and you see one called "Free Wi-Fi" or a similar name, beware -- you may end up being victimized by the latest hot-spot scam hitting airports across the country.

I'm not sure, but I think there's a different icon for a adhoc network rather than the normal wifi connection people are used to looking at. I'll try to get a confirmation on that tomorrow at work.

[joshuatree]

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I'm not sure, but I think there's a different icon for a adhoc network rather than the normal wifi connection people are used to looking at. I'll try to get a confirmation on that tomorrow at work.

It's not just airports, I've already encountered that at hotels and public places. It's really just a pc to pc connection but scammers simply name the connection "Free Wi-Fi" to catch less savvy users. The icon would be a laptop connecting to another laptop.

[craigwatanabe]

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If you see one I would start looking around to see who else is using a laptop.

[i-hungry]

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Is there an actual HTML link on that? I only see "source" in the link.

[adrian]

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Is there an actual HTML link on that? I only see "source" in the link.

oh, sorry about that. Here's the link