Mike Cooper wrote: > I met a guy at RSA this year that this same thing happened to involving > London (Bryan Rutberg). His daughter was the first to catch on, and they > tried to warn people using his wife's and daughter's accounts... who > were promptly "de-friended". Other attempts were reacted to very quickly > and in similar fashion. One of the two friends that was defrauded asked > some very pointed questions, and the responder was able to dig through > email history, friend info, etc. to pull out realistic enough details to > convince the friend to send $1200. >
Did he demand his money back from them? > In that case it was surely a human, and this sounds similar enough (in > locale even). > > ~Coop > > > On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:58 PM, mark seiden-via mac wrote: > >> it's interesting that they're going through the trouble of reading >> people's email enough so they >> can add verisimilitude to an otherwise lackluster narrative. >> >> i don't think these are bots. >> >> the key questions they have to get over are why they can't be reached >> by phone and why they can't >> receive the money in their own name. >> >> On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Col wrote: >> >>> Same thing happened to a friend this morning, replace London for >>> Wales though. >>> >>> Funny thing was they said they were there with their husband and >>> baby, when the husband was sitting behind the person they were trying >>> to scam. The scammer instantly logged off when this came to light. So >>> I don't think its a bot. >>> >>> C. >>> >>> >>> >>> 2009/6/22 Imri Goldberg <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der Mouse >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> How do you know it was a bot? >>> >>> -- >>> Imri Goldberg >>> -------------------------------------- >>> www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/ <http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/> >>> -------------------------------------- >>> -- insert signature here ---- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > ---- > LOAD "SIG",8,1 > RUN > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
