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lord loh. · 7th May 2006, 04:55 AM

I invite people to post about the most impressive scandals that they ever came across...
If you read a book with an ingenous electronic theft, do mention it as well...

Here... I begin with one...
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This is what I read in a news paper that some thugs in checkoslovakia had built a 100% fake ATM machine that accepted the client's ATM card, their PIN, and at the end of the transaction said..."Error Processing" or "No cash" or something...

Of course, the machine managed to read the card data and the PIN... Which is sufficient to swindle people of their hard earned money...

**Jay.slovak** · 7th May 2006, 09:09 AM

Hmm, interesting. We never had an ATMs back in Czechoslovakia. As far as I remember, ATMs started to appear after 1993, when Czechoslovakia broke down to Czech Republic and Slovakia

A good Idea with the fake ATM though...

lord loh. · 7th May 2006, 09:13 AM

I saw this in a news paper a few months ago... I guess they made a mistake... It could be either Czech Republic or Slovakia... Be careful Jay.Slovak. Don't get swindled

**Nigel Goodwin** · 7th May 2006, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lord loh.

I saw this in a news paper a few months ago... I guess they made a mistake... It could be either Czech Republic or Slovakia... Be careful Jay.Slovak. Don't get swindled

False ATM machines are common place, either planting a complete new one somewhere, or fitting a false front over an existing one - they read your card and record your PIN (or even keep your card) - they can steal a LOT of money in just a few hours.

lord loh. · 7th May 2006, 11:46 AM

This is a novel I read...

Here a consultant audited banks and financial institutions, detected crimes Trojan Horses, hijack the bug and use it to make money themselves....

But this time the thug called Alloways was smart.... He transferred 9900 pounds into the consultants account and warned him to stay put.... Or he is the one with the inappropriate transaction....

So the consultant killed Alloways...

But this is not the end... The consultant still had to hijack the crime....

So he had got a memory dump from a mainframe and got his assistant analyse all the hex codes... He found a part of memory that was neither opcode nor data....

It was a set of random numbers...taken off a book of random numbers.

Later the consultant discovered that the random numbers were a place holder for the bug. The bug came from the Liverpool mainframe into the London mainframe everyday at the synchronization time, transferred 9900 pounds to a host of fake accounts...

The consultant discovered this and got a a list of accounts that had just 9900 pounds... Walked away with the list, gave the bank a clean chit...

And is now free to enjoy 9900 pounds from accounts of his choice...

Papabravo · 7th May 2006, 03:50 PM

I thought you guys might get a kick out of some guys that decided to play footsie with the scammers.

http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

HarveyH42 · 7th May 2006, 06:29 PM

This one is just plain sick...

In December 2005, in Waverly, Florida (Polk county), Rev. Ruben P. Thompson was arrested on numerous sex crimes. Not uncomon for a man of god these days, except the victim was his own daughter, who was impregnated with 4 children (grandkids?). The oldest of the incest children turned him in, after her father (grandfather?) tried to get her pregnant as well. Now, a lot of weird stuff happens in Polk County, but this is the worst I can remember ever hearing, anywhere.
Not sure what the courts are doing with this, haven't seen anything new since the arrest. I first heard the story at work, from people who attended Rev. Thompson's church. Oh, the middle name is "Peaceful", don't figure...

**Jay.slovak** · 7th May 2006, 06:44 PM

HarveyH42: That is so horrible

**Nigel Goodwin** · 7th May 2006, 06:58 PM

Why is it that the USA seems to so full of religious maniacs?, is it perhaps because the other countries threw them out?

Mind you, they are getting their own back, with crazy American religious groups being exported to other countries!.

Papabravo · 8th May 2006, 01:22 AM

Must be the lack of monarchy to fall back on.

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7th May 2006, 04:55 AM	(permalink)
lord loh.	World Wide Scandals... I invite people to post about the most impressive scandals that they ever came across... If you read a book with an ingenous electronic theft, do mention it as well... Here... I begin with one... __________________________________________________ _____________________ This is what I read in a news paper that some thugs in checkoslovakia had built a 100% fake ATM machine that accepted the client's ATM card, their PIN, and at the end of the transaction said..."Error Processing" or "No cash" or something... Of course, the machine managed to read the card data and the PIN... Which is sufficient to swindle people of their hard earned money... __________________ Bharath Bhushan Lohray. M.Sc. Electronics. Last edited by lord loh.; 7th May 2006 at 09:14 AM.

7th May 2006, 09:09 AM	(permalink)
Jay.slovak	Hmm, interesting. We never had an ATMs back in Czechoslovakia. As far as I remember, ATMs started to appear after 1993, when Czechoslovakia broke down to Czech Republic and Slovakia A good Idea with the fake ATM though... __________________ "I share, thus I am" Jay.slovak Read this! ICD2 Clone Best PIC/DsPIC Bootloader Read my Inchworm ICD2 review!

7th May 2006, 09:13 AM	(permalink)
lord loh.	I saw this in a news paper a few months ago... I guess they made a mistake... It could be either Czech Republic or Slovakia... Be careful Jay.Slovak. Don't get swindled __________________ Bharath Bhushan Lohray. M.Sc. Electronics.

7th May 2006, 11:46 AM	(permalink)
lord loh.	The Consultant. This is a novel I read... Here a consultant audited banks and financial institutions, detected crimes Trojan Horses, hijack the bug and use it to make money themselves.... But this time the thug called Alloways was smart.... He transferred 9900 pounds into the consultants account and warned him to stay put.... Or he is the one with the inappropriate transaction.... So the consultant killed Alloways... But this is not the end... The consultant still had to hijack the crime.... So he had got a memory dump from a mainframe and got his assistant analyse all the hex codes... He found a part of memory that was neither opcode nor data.... It was a set of random numbers...taken off a book of random numbers. Later the consultant discovered that the random numbers were a place holder for the bug. The bug came from the Liverpool mainframe into the London mainframe everyday at the synchronization time, transferred 9900 pounds to a host of fake accounts... The consultant discovered this and got a a list of accounts that had just 9900 pounds... Walked away with the list, gave the bank a clean chit... And is now free to enjoy 9900 pounds from accounts of his choice... __________________ Bharath Bhushan Lohray. M.Sc. Electronics.

7th May 2006, 03:50 PM	(permalink)
Papabravo	The 419 Eaters I thought you guys might get a kick out of some guys that decided to play footsie with the scammers. http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

7th May 2006, 06:29 PM	(permalink)
HarveyH42	This one is just plain sick... In December 2005, in Waverly, Florida (Polk county), Rev. Ruben P. Thompson was arrested on numerous sex crimes. Not uncomon for a man of god these days, except the victim was his own daughter, who was impregnated with 4 children (grandkids?). The oldest of the incest children turned him in, after her father (grandfather?) tried to get her pregnant as well. Now, a lot of weird stuff happens in Polk County, but this is the worst I can remember ever hearing, anywhere. Not sure what the courts are doing with this, haven't seen anything new since the arrest. I first heard the story at work, from people who attended Rev. Thompson's church. Oh, the middle name is "Peaceful", don't figure...

7th May 2006, 06:44 PM	(permalink)
Jay.slovak	HarveyH42: That is so horrible __________________ "I share, thus I am" Jay.slovak Read this! ICD2 Clone Best PIC/DsPIC Bootloader Read my Inchworm ICD2 review!

7th May 2006, 06:58 PM	(permalink)
Nigel Goodwin	Why is it that the USA seems to so full of religious maniacs?, is it perhaps because the other countries threw them out? Mind you, they are getting their own back, with crazy American religious groups being exported to other countries!. __________________ PIC programmer software, and PIC Tutorials at: http://www.winpicprog.co.uk

8th May 2006, 01:22 AM	(permalink)
Papabravo	Must be the lack of monarchy to fall back on.