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Interesting spear fishing type attack
From: dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:23:27 +0000
On 9 March 2010 15:39, PJ Velasco <pjvela at gmail.com> wrote:
One of the guys I work with got an email from a person he used to know real well years ago. ?The email claimed that the person was stuck in the UK and needed money to come back home to the states. ?I thought this was an interesting angle. ?Identify and research your target (as usual), but instead of looking for current group memberships or vendors you search classmates.com or other reunion type social networking sites and craft an email using someone they used to go to school with. ?Obviously this did not work on my coworker, but I thought the list would find it interesting.
I heard this one as well, usually with people travelling in more remote countries. It is fairly simple to drop a keylogger in an internet cafe in a small village in somewhere like Thailand then use the captured mail credentials to login in and send the mail to everyone in the address book. Because the person is really there the scam is more convincing. Robin
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