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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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