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    Three.8 Million cyber theft is hardly newsworthy?

    Check this out! And it happened in Alaska.

    http://www.adn.com/article/20150506/...nt-cyber-fraud
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tekboy View Post
    Check this out! And it happened in Alaska.

    http://www.adn.com/article/20150506/...nt-cyber-fraud
    These days cyberfraud is so common, that much of it goes unreported. Even krebsonsecurity.com didn't pick up on this one. I'm sure that if you sent Brian a heads up on this story, he would much appreciate it.
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    No so much a hack as someone emailing and calling an idiot on the phone who just transferred the money. Honestly I'd be looking at the guy that transferred the money as the possible culprit who may have generated the emails and calls and such to cover his own tracks.


    I love the line about how the scammer was in Asia, or Europe. Why not write, "we've no flipping clue".

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    Quote Originally Posted by ilovetheusers View Post
    No so much a hack as someone emailing and calling an idiot on the phone who just transferred the money. Honestly I'd be looking at the guy that transferred the money as the possible culprit who may have generated the emails and calls and such to cover his own tracks.


    I love the line about how the scammer was in Asia, or Europe. Why not write, "we've no flipping clue".
    I agree that this was either an example of exceptional stupidity, or an inside job. But, when it comes to online scams, exceptional stupidity isn't exceptional.
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    How would this even happen anyway? I mean, I work for a bank right now, and I see massive sums of money on some screens, but that's a bank. This is some native's fund thing. What idiot transferred such a huge load of money without getting approval? I mean, if it was like $10,000, maybe I could see this, but $3,800,000.00? That's like a whole other level of stupid. Gotta be an inside job.

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    They seem to be a rather big business. I'm quite sure that man was asked to transfer amounts equal to, if not greater in the past. So it was no big deal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobile PC View Post
    They seem to be a rather big business. I'm quite sure that man was asked to transfer amounts equal to, if not greater in the past. So it was no big deal.
    Some of the tribes have made a lot of money in recent years. Since they aren't constrained by state and federal law they run some very profitable casinos and the like.
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    They "mirrored" an email account in order to accomplish this. Whoever did it was slick, with skills beyond those available in that Native Corporation. Whoever did this one was pretty skilled, I think.

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