Pluralistic: How I got scammed

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 03:56:48 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security>

"I wuz robbed.

More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my
bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+
worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And then he tried
to do it again, a week later!"

Via The RISKS Digest Volume 34 Issue 10:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/10#subj13

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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