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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

• Suspicious much? (Score: 4, Insightful) by JeanCroix on Friday January 20 2017, @08:32PM

  by JeanCroix (573) on Friday January 20 2017, @08:32PM (#456688)

  Maybe it's just me, but if anyone I know starts asking me for my banking or other account info via any online medium, I assume their account or phone number has been compromised by a third party.

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