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Tech Fraud Beating Out Social Engineering

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-good-or-bad-i-can't-tell dept.

The Walking Dude writes "BBC News asked Frank Abagnale if technology is driving the old-school conman into extinction. 'Mr Abagnale really ought to know', as the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can was based on his life. He served five years of a 12 year prison sentence for check fraud before being offered a job with the FBI. 'There may, after all, be life in the old con yet.'"

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  1. Torrent for "Catch Me If You Can" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm seeding:
    http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3343505

  2. What about all those at Enron? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Gone is the sharp-suited, debonair, sliver-tongued fraudster who'd charm his way to a personal fortune."

    Hey, BBC writer, didn't you ever hear of Enron?

    1. Re:What about all those at Enron? by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wait... politics aside, are you suggesting Dick Cheney could charm his way into anything?

  3. Re:What? by fux0rbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a short conversation I had with a teacher (I work for a school district) I had the other day.

    Me: "Hey, what's your password? No wait, I'll just reset your password and you can change it when the computer restarts."

    Teacher: "NO! I don't want to make a new password. I just want them all to be the same so I don't have to remember two or three. My password is 'steak'."

    Me: *Sigh* "Okay..."

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  5. Re:Old scams are definitely still alive... by idonthack · · Score: 4, Funny
    One of the most frightening things I learn having conversations with people is their willingness to believe complete and utter bullshit.
    One time a girl asked a friend of mine if guys breathed through thier penis while they slept. She was completely serious. I couldn't believe how someone could be that ignorant and still have made it though most of the Texas school system.

    Wait a moment...
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    Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
  6. Re:Old scams are definitely still alive... by nitehawk214 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One time a girl asked a friend of mine if guys breathed through thier penis while they slept. She was completely serious.

    Perhaps a guy asked her to perform artifical resuscitation on his penis?

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