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No-Fail Identity Theft – Live and In Person
ancientribe writes "A researcher performing social-engineering exploits on behalf of several US banks and other firms in the past year has 'stolen' thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. He and his team have posed as investigators for the FDIC (among other things), and numerous times have literally been able to walk out the door with pilfered identities. The reason: organizations are typically so focused on online ID theft that they've forgotten how easy it is for a criminal to socially engineer his way into a bank branch or office and physically hack it."
This has happened before. in 64 AD the Great Fire in Rome melted roof tiles of lead which flowed into the treasury reducing the gold content of any coin with Nero's face on it to about 1/2 that of his predecessor...that was Nero's stoyy and he is sticking to it!
Identity theft is making peopel mistrust the banking system. Given what a shady thing it really is, this is a bad thing?
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
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