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Trying to defraud *police* credit unions?
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:13:03 -0800
OK, without knowing the details, this still, initially, strikes me as a really stupid thing to do. Even if you succeed, to begin with, you've got a lot of really capable and motivated people after you ... Police have arrested eight people in a two-month-long investigation of at least $150,000 in credit card fraud against members of two police credit unions. The fraud ring, which involved seven employees of Chicago-area retail stores, hit 140 accounts at the Illinois State Police Credit Union and the Chicago Patrolmens Credit Union, according to Illinois State Police. The investigation involved state police, the U.S. Secret Service, the Illinois Attorney Generals office, and the Chicago Police Department. Police did not identify the retail stores involved, but corporate security for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., also assisted in the investigation. [Oh, what a giveaway! - rms] According to police, the ring involved seven employees of retail stores who either bought merchandise fraudulently or helped other people buy goods fraudulently. Investigators began their probe after people with accounts at the two credit unions found out someone was making fraudulent purchases on their cards. http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/arrests-in-credit-card-fraud- against-police-credit-union-members.html (On the other hand, it'd possibly be easier to do, initially. Someone from law enforcement once told me that cops are the easiest people to socially engineer, because they belong to a very tight community, with a specialized jargon, and if you "talk the talk," they automatically assume that you are "one of them ...") ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org Don't bother to agree with me, I've already changed my mind. http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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