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Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17

Posted by kdawson on from the not-the-brightest-LED-in-the-flashlight dept.

Groo Wanderer writes "Normally, a well-crafted fake ATM would skim a lot of card information before it was noticed, if it was ever noticed at all. Because it is safer for the criminals and harder to prosecute, financial crimes like this are spreading fast. If you are smart, you don't try to pull one off in the middle of a computer security convention where the attendees are very good at spotting such scams. That said, some not-so-bright criminal tried to plant a fake ATM at Defcon. He now has one less fake ATM and a whole lot of investigators on his tail."

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  1. Defcon 5 isn't peaceful enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know we've been pulling out of Iraq, but going down to Defcon 17 just seems ridiculous.

  2. Pedant Warning! by ZackSchil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Article contains the terms "ATM Machine" and "PIN Number". Read at your own risk.

    1. Re:Pedant Warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, like we are going to RTFA the farking article.

    2. Re:Pedant Warning! by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Read at your own risk.

      At whom else's risk would I read it?

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    3. Re:Pedant Warning! by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe it is referring to the other, NSFW definition of ATM. This is a hotel in Las Vegas, you know.

    4. Re:Pedant Warning! by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 5, Funny

      Asynchronous Transfer Mode? (Imagining that as a sexual euphemism gives me all kinds of degrading ideas)

    5. Re:Pedant Warning! by machine321 · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, in Canada, if you're going to steal a money-dispensing machine, you tell people you're going to take a BM?

    6. Re:Pedant Warning! by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lastly he said "Please direct me to your nearest porcelain receptacle that I may initiate peristalsis and thus deposit my faeces therein."

      On a related note, there's those baby wipes called "Baby Faces" and I so which I could photoshop those in real life and add an "e" to make it "Baby Faeces".

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    7. Re:Pedant Warning! by ATMD · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course, whether you get to do any is another matter.

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    8. Re:Pedant Warning! by jtownatpunk.net · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can I touch you for a fag?

  3. Fake ATMs by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

    They make it sound like this was done by criminals. Who's to say it wasn't really a job offer in disguise? ;) "First person here to notice this gets a job offer."

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  4. Re:Complete FAIL for eveyone, including law enforc by e9th · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees. Sort of like a guy having a heart attack at a cardiologists convention and the cops keeping everybody back until an ambulance can arrive and take him to a hospital.

  5. Re:Complete FAIL for eveyone, including law enforc by Xemu · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees.

    The true FAIL was the Defcon attendees failing to spot and realize that the cops hauling the machines away were fake, and the ATM was real.

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  6. Re:Epic Fail by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

    One wonders if it wasn't just bait to get security to tip their hand for a more thought out caper.

    Been watching Oceans Eleven have we?

  7. Re:Complete FAIL for eveyone, including law enforc by e9th · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you think of it more like finding a bomb at an explosives convention. Fair enough -- the cops were probably worried about some guy in the back yelling whatever the ATM equivalent of, "Cut the BLUE wire!" is. ;)

  8. Re:Damn, I wish I noticed it... by Vectronic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah? and I climb rainbows for a living... with our powers combined, we form Captain Planet.

  9. Re:Complete FAIL for eveyone, including law enforc by Dan541 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could have covertly had an undercover agent place an "out of order" sign on it;

    Really, I'd replace the computer inside the ATM with a Ninja.

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