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Scam artists, your web browser, and you
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:50:10 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Today I tried to order some tickets from Miami-Heat-Tickets.com (also known as Platinumeventsinc.com). A few minutes later they called me up and told me that the seats I'd bought were coming from Nevada and "he didn't know if they were available" but he could send me a bunch of seats that WERE available for more money by email if I'd like. Sounded like a classic bait and switch to me. Of course, we'd already entered in our credit card number. I called up the credit card company and told them the story and they said "Well, whatever. Just tell us if they charge you". See, this is why I don't get carding and the big fuss over it. I'm not liable for that money, and the credit card companies clearly don't care if I hand my number out to the world. And partially this is why I think the solution is not Palladium - if I'm dumb enough to give my credit card number out to a scam artist, that's my problem and no amount of browser compartmentalization is going to help. But since everyone is dumb enough to give their credit card number out, it's really Visa/Mastercard/Amex's problem and they need to either fix it, or stop wasting tax-payer's money by making the FBI hunt these people down. - -dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEYf2itehAhL0gheoRAm1OAJ4h2G4bIvTTt5d/Rum3YEDE6q8V7QCcD7JF aALJ/F+c2jVaRkalVrbadEk= =VYF3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Scam artists, your web browser, and you Dave Aitel (May 10)
- Re: Scam artists, your web browser, and you Paul Wouters (May 10)
- RE: Scam artists, your web browser, and you Dave Korn (May 10)
- Re: Scam artists, your web browser, and you Dave Aitel (May 10)
- Re: Scam artists, your web browser, and you miah (May 11)
- Re: Scam artists, your web browser, and you Dave Aitel (May 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Scam artists, your web browser, and you Clemens, Dan (May 10)