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Date: Fri Jun 23 22:10:35 2006 From: dudevanwinkle at gmail.com (Dude VanWinkle) Subject: Re: [funsec] Vishing (voice/phone phishing) - public incident On 6/23/06, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote: > Last year some of us made jokes about Vishing on funsec, today it's a > reality. Here is the incident going public: > http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=534 > > Special thanks to the good guys at Websense and the PIRT guys at > CastleCOPS PIRT. > > I guess jokes about Vishing with a heavy Russian accent were good, too bad > this wave file doesn't have that accent. :) > > The attacked party is Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. I suppose the IRS will > also take interest in this. Dang, I was thinking the msg would be "Please call our support hotline at 1-900...." Is someone really sitting at the phone waiting for customers to call up, or is it an automated greeting that walks you through a "password reset"? -JP
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