Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This reminds me of a few years back when I attended a class on information security taught by one of this countries intelligence agencies. They had worked with several of the banking institutuions on how to protect information, and devised a test, where they put signs up at each of the banks automated banking machines telling the customers to put their teller receipts in a basket next to the teller machines. They figured that 10 to 20% would do this. What they found was that over 85% of the customers actually dropped their receipts in the basket! the reciepts have information about your account on them and could give someone information about you. They were surprised that such a large percentage would actually do this. The positive thing out of this is that the banking institutions did change how and what information is put on the receipts after that. People are very gullable, unfortunately, along with careless aobut protecting information about themselves. Gene -------------- Original message from Rob McClure <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com>: -------------- > Jim, > > One of our bank's customers just got taken in a Nigerian scam. Thought > they were getting a $30000 Bimmer for $9000. Duh! Daily we have > customers trying to deposit lottery "winnings" checks from contests > they never entered. Always a scam but they think somehow they have hit > it big. Customers are giving out their debit card numbers and PINS > like crazy after receiving fake emails from banks and paypal. > > I have never seen anything like this wholesale thievery (and consumer > foolishness given all the publicity of these scams) in 30 years in > banking. > > Rob McClure > > > On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jim Shulman wrote: > > > This sort of scam is becoming quite frequent with high-dollar items. > > I've > > seen it regularly with expensive restored antique cars. Most often, > > the > > bidding will start (with no reserve) at something silly, like $10. > > There > > will be a notice in the description that there's a "buy it now" price > > at a > > well-below-market rate, but only if you contact the seller though a > > separate > > e-mail address. > > > > Bottom line: if it's too good to be true, that's exactly right. > > > > Jim Shulman > > Bryn Mawr, PA > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information