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Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:17:59 -0400
On Tue, 09 May 2006 23:37:44 -0000, Fergie said:
Personally, I think we *are* seeing it. Deluges of it. Every day, week, month, etc, ad nasueum.
Do a back-of-envelope. 600 *million* computers. Call it half a billion with spyware. We're seeing hundreds and thousands of hits per day. 100,000 is all of 0.02% of half a billion. Even if they took 1% for a ride, that would be 5 million cases of fraud. One of 3 possibilities: 1) That 87% is waaaay over the top, and 8% is more reasonable. I don't buy this for a moment. 2) The spyware community is either inept, or even 1% is enough to make them all rich enough to not work harder, or the bottleneck is elsewhere - cashout or similar issues. 3) The spyware community is very cognizant of *exactly* how much fraud the credit card companies will tolerate, and are good at flying under the wire.... Take your pick, or suggest a #4.
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- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
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- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Fergie (May 09)
- RE: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Alex Eckelberry (May 09)
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- Re: Webroot Uncovers Thousands of Stolen Identities Axel Pettinger (May 10)
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