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What Online Scams Would Look Like If They Were Real People
When we see Nigerian princes or weird links or invasive people who want to much personal information pop up in our email inbox, we immediately know that they’re scams. It’s part of the internet. But what if it was a part of real life too? It would be absolutely terrifying to see online scams and viruses as people.
Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Concert Tickets On Facebook
The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You’ve been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close, so, naturally, you want to post pictures of your beloved gift on Facebook, rubbing it in all your friends’ rodeo-less faces. Here’s a tip: don’t. Because someone will steal it.
Two For One: Amazon’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam
You may recall that Amazon was implicated as the weak link in the Mat Honan iCloud hack, wherein a gadget blogger had his entire online identity nuked from orbit because Amazon gave up the secondary identifying information necessary to issue a password reset over at Apple. I’m sad to say that Amazon has clearly not improved their authentication protocols in any meaningful way, but this time it’s hurting them directly.
Amazon Accounts Might Be Getting Scammed With False Orders
When our dear friend Mat Honan got hacked earlier this year, it was because of gaping security flaws in Apple and Amazon’s customer service systems. It hasn’t been fixed. Amazon’s customer service has another security flaw, and it’s being exploited to hijack Amazon accounts and snag false replacement orders. And the scammers don’t even need to know your account’s password.
Credit Card Skimmers Aren’t Just At ATMs Anymore
It used to be that you only had to be paranoid about credit card skimmers when using an ATM. But times have changed, and the bad guys have gotten so sophisticated that they’ve now created realistic but fake point of sale terminals that even print an authentic-looking receipt while they’re collecting your credit card number and PIN.
