When Doug Varey clicked on a pop-up ad offering computer security protection for 12 years for £556, he signed up.
"I had no reason to suspect it wasn't genuine," he says.
That was a mistake. Mr Varey was a victim of a common online scam known as computer software service fraud, which ended up costing him some £4,000.
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