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RE: Ransomeware
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:40:20 +1200
Richard M. Smith wrote:
I gave a security talk in NYC this past week and brought up this ransomeware virus. Most people in the room hadn't heard of this kind of extortion scheme before. The first question I was asked was how does the perp collect his $300 without being caught.
This doesn't take much to answer... How do scammers working stolen identity and CC info profit from such without getting caught? There are basically two ways -- simply sell the ID info (so, if caught, you are only guilty of generally significantly lesser crimes, or at least, in practice, crimes that generally receive significantly lesser sentences if ever caught and brought to trial), or use a (chain of) mule(s) to make the money trail much harder to follow (insist that at least one link in the chain does transfers via Western Union or old-fashioned spy-story "cold drop", and change mule trains often). Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ 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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