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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. First Post ? by lbalbalba · · Score: -1, Troll

    Srry, just had to say that sometime ...

    1. Re:First Post ? by lbalbalba · · Score: -1, Troll

      Damn, missed it by an inch/microsec... :(

    2. Re:First Post ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You worthless, non-contributing faggot.

      Srry, just had to say that sometime.

  2. 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...

  3. Re:Defcon 5 isn't peaceful enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know about you, but when I suddenly withdraw, my girlfriend gets more worried. I'm pretty sure her defcon goes up to 2.

  4. Re:Pedant Warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck you. slashfag

  5. Re:Pedant Warning! by interkin3tic · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since more people say "PIN number" and "ATM machine" than people who care that it's redundant, I'd argue those terms are now correct.

  6. President Obama to ban comic books. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He has said that they are the last bastion of pasty white nerds.

    He also went on to say that any white man trying to get a white woman pregnant must first let a black man try as part of his new equal opportunity package.

    Fuck Louis Gates

    Straight up!

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

    tldr

    --
    This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
  8. Re:Epic Fail by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: -1, Troll

    Most of the people who go to Defcon are mouth-breathing neckbeards who were taught to root boxes from "Swordfish" and "Hackers". The restare the equally inept Feds who want to be "bad" because they never got any pussy at bible study as youths.

    Stupidities all around.

    --Ethanol-fueled

  9. 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.