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ID Theft Made Easy
chiagoo writes "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate. Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal their identities for a chance to win theater tickets. Social engineering at its best. Why spend time writing bots and rootkits when people will give you what you want for a piece of candy or a ticket to see The Pacifier?"
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I could see giving up the info for a good movie, but come on, the Pacifier?? :)
That Anonymous Coward dude must've really screwed up. Everybody seems to have his password.
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Why spend time writing bots and rootkits when people will give you what you want for a piece of candy or a ticket to see The Pacifier?
must write rootkits, to allow for future logins. don't want to be handing out candy, for each time i want to login into a system.
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
Dear Sir,
ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR ACQUISITION OF MASS QUANITY OF CHOCOLATE
I write to inform you of my desire to acquire large quanities of chocolate in your country on behalf of the Director of Contracts and Finance Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Nigeria.
Considering his very strategic and influential
position, he would want the transaction to be as
strictly confidential as possible. He further wants his identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of the transaction. Hence our desire to have an overseas agent.
I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as our overseas agent in order to actualize this transaction.
The deal, in brief, is that the funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed investments in your country is presently in a coded account at the Nigerian Apex Bank (i.e. the Central Bank of Nigeria) and we need your assistance and password to transfer the funds to your country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before we can put the funds into use in your country.
Even I am not immune to this sort of scamming for info. While out drinking with friends (drunk actually) I was approached by an attractive female working for Marlboro. She would give me cheap cigarette coupons and a free Zippo lighter if I let them give me a survey. Drunk, distracted, and clueless, I swiped my license and took the survey. I have been getting coupons and various "gifts" in the mail since. I could have been completely duped by these people and not had a single clue. Luckily they were who they said they were and I'm not seeing any miscellaneous charges being rung up by any cigarette companies trying to cover their lawsuits with my money. Anyone (no matter how careful) can be owned. By the way - I don't even smoke cigarettes.
Yeah, the copper zippo! I have one. And I love that they send me the coupons, decks of cards, CDs, all kinds of cool stuff. If they're going to be my choice of cancer providers, at least they can give me cool shit to get buried with.
You could use 123 Fake St., too...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Tickets for The Pacifier was NOT part of the deal. You promised me advanced tickets to Revenge of the Sith damnit! If I don't get those tickets soon, I swear I'll change my password!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Why do you know the number to a sex line off the top of your head.
Oh, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
Congratulations sir, here is your official membership pin to the Tin Foil Hat Brigade! Your address is really not all that confidential at all; anyone can get it if they want to. Your car's license plate number is by definition public information; what are you going to do, cover it up? To get the level of privacy you seem to be looking for, I recommend that you never leave your house except to purchase necessities, and then you must walk and not drive, wear a ski mask, pay with cash, and never buy anything that would require an ID. No, that doesn't sound like much fun to me either, so I'll put up with the occaisional annoyance, which is really all this stuff is.
Could you post your pics somewhere?
Who needs russian identity thieves?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"Ok mr. simpson, just fill out this form giving us all of your personal information and we will hand you this ICE, COLD 6-PACK of DUFF."
.......
"Laaaaaaa, beeeeeeeer. gimme gimme gimme!"
"Thank you for your information and here is your beer. Now, if you'd be so kind as to sign over your power of attorney we'll give you a SECOND 6-PACK."
People (and I am including myself in this) are idiots, we'd give up tons of our rights for a quick little gift.
My phone number is
;)
911-5555
Hope their dialing computer catches that one
It seems that he is not alone...
Yeah, stealing the identities of Wal-Mart shoppers. There's a million dollar scam.
!hoD
Name: Andrew Nonymuss
Occupation: Executive Assisstant to the Vice Peon of Menial Affairs
Income: 400,000 zorkmids (I don't know what that is in dollars
Age: 39.14246575342465753424657534246575
Ethnic: Some of the above, but in no particular order.
Have you bought any of our products before? Only when I couldn't find anything else to disembowel a Kodiak Marmoset with.
Were you satisfied with it? Why don't you ask the Marmoset?
Would you buy any of our products again? Only if it's that or be stoned by an angry mob.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
As a Canadian the only US Zip I use is 90210 when the info collected is US only based. I remember there was a report on CNN a while back about how web usage in the L.A area was growing faster than any other metro area in the US.
Data accuracy much...
I anticipated identity theft many years before most media outlets were reporting about it. I took it upon myself the to a comprehensive plan into action more than 10 years ago. Below is my six step plan for avoiding identity theft. 1) Get a credit card when you are young and abuse the hell out of it then do not pay the bill. 2) Avoid paying your monthly utility bills on time. 3) Get a secured Visa from your bank and then do not pay those bills, finally letting the card fall into default and then the bank keeps your secured deposit. 4) Get many Cell phone plans and do not pay those bills. 5) Buy merchandise on no interest plans and then just disappear. 6) Write checks with no money in the bank. The resulting checks will bounce and cause many warrants put out for your arrest. Now following this 6 step plan will cause your credit to just basically suck and if any thief decides your identity is his next target he will have a nice little surprise when he tries to get that new credit card in your name. In fact I have found that this can lead to more arrests of the identity thieves by causing the police to come look for me for bad debt and busting the crooks red handed. If you found this to be useful information then please deposit $5 into my checking account. If you have trouble getting the deposit to go through then here is some information to help you. Mother's Maiden Name: Disney Pet's Name: Mickey Mouse D.O.B: 12/05/1901 Phone Number: (818) 460-7477
> Hobbies = yachts, hunting, republicans, etc.
I read that too fast and thought.. Hunting republicans!? Ooh! Where?
Trade pwd 4 sex
Actually, I did that once. My girlfriend and I were having a fight because she accused me of not trusting her. As a show of trust and good faith, I told her my main password for important stuff. Shortly afterwards, we had make-up sex. After she fell asleep, I went and changed my passwords.
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The password would be 12345. That's the kind of password an idiot would use on his luggage.
Mine is usually "What is your password?" Its only come back to bite me in the ass once so far.
I'm going to try that tonight ...
"Your SSN number is not required for this service (because that would land us in jail), but without it we cannot process your application (meaning you don't get the service)."
-- . . ramblin' . . .
I don't know what's worse: That she thinks you don't trust her, that you gave her your **REAL** password to your stuff, or that you then went and changed it afterwards?!
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I don't know what's worse: That she thinks you don't trust her, that you gave her your **REAL** password to your stuff, or that you then went and changed it afterwards?!
All three are bad, yes, but none are the worst.
The worst is that he posted the whole affair on Slashdot, was modded +5 Funny, and no one has karma-whored with the obligatory "at least you HAVE a girlfriend, you insensitive clod overlord that owes me a new keyboard" reply.