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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. No Darwin Award, though by turbotroll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too bad the scumbag didn't die in the process. It would be such a nice Darwin Award winning material...

  2. Re:Pedant Warning! by kiddygrinder · · Score: 0, Troll

    tldr

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    This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
  3. Re:Pedant Warning! by adelgado · · Score: 0, Troll

    He likes to reflect on how, of all the countries he's travelled to in the world (most of which do not have English as a local language), the one he had the hardest trouble finding a toilet in (due to comprehension problems) was America.

    America isn't a country tough, you know, it's a continent. I'm pretty sure all these questions wouldn't get him to a restroom in the part of America I live, unless spoken in Portuguese.