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Offshored Identity Theft
Travoltus writes "The threat of increased misuse of consumer personal data by offshore criminals was first made publicly known with the UCSF Pakistani medical transcriber scandal. Then, in a logical progression of events, it was discovered that foreign criminal interests were offering money to offshored call center workers to surrender consumer data. Now that threat has been realized: Offshored call center staffers at Mphasis BPO have allegedly stolen £200,000 using United States customers' personal information. It is believed that Indian police reacted swiftly to catch the thieves, but only £12,000 has been recovered so far, and it is not really known who orchestrated this theft or where the rest of that money is now. It is also unknown as of yet how much of a mess this has created for the U.S. citizens who were victimized. Let's hope that the people whose information was stolen don't have to go through what other identity theft victims have to endure, to clean up their good name."
it probably isn't the first, I recall seeing similar thing before couple of times. Usually though at least people have the courtesy to not copypaste directly.
anyways.. this is proof of that you could do a slashdot karma-collecting machine quite easily, you would look for similar words in the story text and then automatically repost comments from previous stories that seem like they could be a fit. the discussion is usually general enough and the mods on enough crack to not notice if there's some small thing that goes wrong.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I think incidents like this are tiny examples of what's to come.
Exactly. It's already been proven in Argentina after the financial collapse there (brought about by too much outsourcing and too many large tax breaks given to foreign big business by President Menos, btw). One evening, all the foreign multinationals, including the banks, emptied their safes, chained the doors, and fled the country under cover of darkness. The next morning, the workers showed up to work and found they were all out of jobs. After sitting around moping for a while, they said "screw it", kicked the doors of the now-vacant factories down, started up the machines, and continued producing their product. They pay themselves all an equal wage, out of the profits. They call it fabrica ocupada, "occupied factory". Please note that Argentina was very prosperous, comparable to Canada or Australia.
Now the old owners have found out that the workers are able to cut prices on their products (while still maintaining quality), because the wages of the owners and the management perqs -- golf trips, planes and whatnot are actually the biggest wasteful overhead -- and demand possession of their abandoned factories back in order to stop the "people" from competing with them (they still make their goods elsewhere and ship them into Argentina).