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by anigbrowl 4309 days ago
By getting the user to give me control of it, same as if the user was moving everything to a new computer. You don't have to do this via a website; you use a website to create a problem and then make yourself available to fix it.

Not that I'm into this sort of thing, but I've had a few people attempt to co-opt me into criminal activity in the past so I wouldn't be at all surprised to read about such attacks.