A Scammer Tried to Scare Me into Buying Their Security Services - Here's How It Went Down

March 26th 2018, By Troy Hunt
 
Here's the tl;dr - someone named "Md. Shofiur R" found troyhunt.com on a "free online malware scanner" and tried to scare me into believing my site had security vulnerabilities then shake me down for a penetration test. It didn't work out so well for him, here's the blow-by-blow account of things then I'll add some more thoughts afterwards:
 
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