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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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• Re:Not applicable to the USA (Score: 2, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Friday January 20 2017, @10:49PM

  by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday January 20 2017, @10:49PM (#456758)

  I have had people complain about how many steps it took to port their phone number.

  "Well would you want it to be so easy that anyone could steal your number?"

  That usually shuts them up.

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  "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh

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