der Mouse wrote: >> Here's a story of someone trying to scam me from a friend's facebook >> account which they took over: > >> http://darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/06/facebook_419_im.html > > IMO the real news here is that a bot managed to pass the Turing test > well enough that after an hour talking with it you had to resort to > out-of-band contacts to be sure it wasn't the person it was pretending > to be.
The more I think about it the less likely it seems that it was a bot, however, what else could it be for such a large-scale scam? > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [email protected] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gadi Evron, [email protected]. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
