On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > Is this the one where they execute a man-in-the-middle attack on the economy? > > e.g.: they pose as a contractor and establish a contract with a client, > while posing as the client to establish a contract with the contractor; > the job gets done, and the money gets paid... just into the scammer's > account rather than the contractor's.
There's a variant of that attack. Sometimes the attacker changes the prices reported, pockets the difference, and passes along the rest. There's even a special term for that kind of attack: "reseller" HHOS. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
