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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey BBC writer, ever hear of the current United States Vice President?

  2. Re:Old scams are definitely still alive... by GooberToo · · Score: -1, Troll

    2. WMD in Iraq

    Just FYI, some number of months ago some tapes were released. They were tapes made by Sadam. In them he talks of moving his WMDs to Syria, along with other assets. So to say it was a scam is 100% BS. Sadam in his own recordings 1) admits to not destroying the stuff and 2) moving it to Syria.