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Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam

posted by on Friday January 20 2017, @07:14PM   
from the never-tell-anyone-anything dept.

multixrulz writes:

ABC reports about a worrying scam involving phone number porting. The attacker finds the phone number, name, and date of birth, and other easy-to-find information about a first victim and uses that information to port their number to a new service under control of the attacker. This enables them to access the victim's Facebook account, which is used in a social engineering attack against the victim's friends, who become new victims when they hand over their banking details, which are then used to transfer money and make purchases.

This attack obviously works better with the large amount of personal information people are putting on social networks. But how well would this kind of thing work against the average Soylentil?

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Original Submission

• Missing info (Score: 3, Informative) by number11 on Friday January 20 2017, @08:15PM

  by number11 (1170) on Friday January 20 2017, @08:15PM (#456678)

  The headline and summary fail to mention that this happened in Australia, so may or may not be relevant to your own telco.

  Also, the fact that the victims were union officials was only relevant in that they worked for the telco in question (though not in any capacity that had anything to do with accounts or line porting), it doesn't actually have anything to do with the union.

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