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Hackers Track Down Banking Fraud

Posted by jamie on from the white-hatted-detectives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Noticing some commonalities in the spam flooding their email in-boxes, a small group of hackers set out to track down who was responsible. Along the way they uncovered a trail that led them to an organized gang of criminals halfway around the world, and right back to some of the largest financial institutions in the US, and their customers, that became the gang's prey. See the SecurityFocus story for more details."

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  1. Hackers eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    These hackers need to be prosecuted. This is unacceptable.

  2. Skipping English Class by cscx · · Score: 2, Funny

    One would think that if you want to run a successful scam that looks like it came from a legitamate source, you wouldn't word e-mails like

    "and PIN that you use on ATM."

    "becaurse some of our members no longer have access to their email addresses and we must verify it" (misspelling / run on sentence)

    1. Re:Skipping English Class by R33MSpec · · Score: 2, Funny

      "...One would think that if you want to run a successful scam that looks like it came from a legitamate source, you wouldn't word e-mails like..."

      So are you one of the scammers? ;)

  3. Tracking down things these days... by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Along the way they uncovered a trail that led ... right back to some of the largest financial institutions in the US

    So have they been arrested and charged under the DMCA for divulging weaknesses in the financial system?

    1. Re:Tracking down things these days... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "Why is this modded as funny? These criminals need to be brought to JUSTICE before they divulge these vulnerabilities to their cracker cousins.

      These people are a menace to our way of life and must be stopped by any means necessary! If that means sticking a camera in every home, room, toilet, condom, then by God, we must do it. No Real American should sleep peacefully until these measures are implimented.

      - United States of America, Commander-In-Chief, One Man above God (And the law), George 'Dubya' Bush"*

      * - Not a real quote. But can you imagine?

  4. Re:E-Mails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US authorities are busy pursuing real bad guys:

    - the terrorist 5 year olds trying to smuggle their baby scissors onto airplanes, so they can cut up paper at their destination

    - the terrorist 12 year olds participating in filesharing, and thereby potentially violating copyright

    - the terrorist people of arabic descent trying to fly on airplanes, thereby frightening the crew and passengers by their resemblence to mideasterners