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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by PatrolX on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:45PM (#20101286)
Reminds me of the UK UFO trap story. In the UK it's illegal to listen to police on scanners so detectives transmitted a hoax radio message about a UFO landing near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, then arrested several people who turned up at the spot, charging them with illegally using scanners to monitor police radio transmissions.
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Re:NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services... by wil421 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:43AM (#20104888)
Sounds slightly similar to the boat sweepstakes story.

Some cops somewhere decided to send a letter to everyone who had a warrant stating they won a boat. To make sure they didn’t immediately run they went through a couple fake formalities like pictures and such until they opened the door to the boat garage. Inside were uniformed officer waiting to make the arrest.

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