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Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:36:25 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703271134140.16171@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Monday 2007-03-26 at 21:27 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Well, this gang manufactured so good devices that they did an extra
> > business out of selling the devices... This is not SciFi, it is happening.
> > My father was stolen 1200 eur this way. And it is a sophisticated method.
>
> That's apparently happened more than once in the U.S.
It's happening a lot here in Spain (dunno about the rest of Europe). Just
that the case I told about the making was specially sophisticated.
> In another scam,
> the perpetrator went so far as to set up an entire fake ATM in a mall.
> It skimmed card data and PIN numbers, which he'd then come back and
> download to a laptop later, in the guise of doing maintenance on the
> machine. He was eventually caught when someone complained to the mall
> management about the ATM that always seemed to be out of cash.
How daring! X-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Monday 2007-03-26 at 21:27 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Well, this gang manufactured so good devices that they did an extra
> > business out of selling the devices... This is not SciFi, it is happening.
> > My father was stolen 1200 eur this way. And it is a sophisticated method.
>
> That's apparently happened more than once in the U.S.
It's happening a lot here in Spain (dunno about the rest of Europe). Just
that the case I told about the making was specially sophisticated.
> In another scam,
> the perpetrator went so far as to set up an entire fake ATM in a mall.
> It skimmed card data and PIN numbers, which he'd then come back and
> download to a laptop later, in the guise of doing maintenance on the
> machine. He was eventually caught when someone complained to the mall
> management about the ATM that always seemed to be out of cash.
How daring! X-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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