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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. Re:Pedant Warning! by soniCron88 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Rated "5, Informative" was enough for me.

    --
    Digital Sailor
  2. Re:Pedant Warning! by phoenix_rizzen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, but one could use the much simpler "ATM" and "PIN". Everyone knows the former is a machine, and the latter is a number. To be most correct, and formal, one could even expand the abbreviation the first time it is used.

  3. Aaargh, bad link by Groo+Wanderer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I screwed up, blame a week or so of no sleep. The second link should be.....
    http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/08/02/moron-tries-scamming-fake-atm-defcon/

    Sorry.

                    -Charlie

  4. Re:Epic Fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and Encyclopaedia Dramatica is where mediocre victims of high school ostracism clamber like pantomime dwarfs on each other's shoulders to mock the lowest hanging fruit. The troupe is led by Sherrod Degeneres, a paler Snow White and typical product of her educational background: applying finely tuned loghorrea to complete a CV of has-beens, a "security expert" with barely a mastery of the BSD command line. Does this offbeat love child of the modern Peter Norton rise by night to dig up graves and proudly inflict fresh wounds upon the dead? This is neither war nor sport, and it is better to have nothing to do than to work at nothing, is it not, my Pierian paddling dumpling?

  5. Re:This is really curious by BumbaCLot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP!

  6. Re:This is really curious by edsousa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but I did just spend the better part of a week at Defcon.

    He does not need to cite sources.

  7. Wikipedia makes you stupid by Groo+Wanderer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, you really don't have a clue.

    1) I am the source, I was there.
    2) It is not a blog, it is a news site.
    3) Why did they link me the day before then? http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/1658258/Apple-Keyboard-Firmware-Hack-Demonstrated
    4) I won't make this personal and point out my feelings about your intelligence.

                -Charlie