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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. Re:What about all those at Enron? by woolio · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

    Of course not... He's much too capable with a shotgun to resort to charms...