I personally haven't seen a phishing attempt in a little over a year. This is not an “official” story by any means but never the less it's a pretty good attempt at obtaining all of your information.
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I will be attending the Federal Information Security Conference on the 21 and 22 of June.
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I will be assisting the local Information System Security Association with their booth. Only thing is that I have to renew my damn membership. It is about $125 but it is reimbursed by the company that I work for.
I have never been to the FISC, but it sounds extremilty boring. Just look at the speakers:
http://www.fbcinc.com/fisc/speakers.asp Lots of Chief Scientists, Chiefs Security Officers, Chief Technical Officers. To many chiefs and not enough Indians. The more titles with the words, Chief, Senior, Director or (worse) chairman the less the person seems to know about what is REALLY going on “on the ground.” There are always exceptions of course. But I don't think that the FISC is going to have any exceptions. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
Looks like lots of theory and policy. I personally like toys and tricks. I'm more of a Defcon type of guy. I'm definitely going this year. It will be great.
If you’ve gotten an email that looks like this one
FROM:Mr.Peter Wong
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
17 Des Voeux Road
Hq Branch.
Hong Kong.
Hello,
I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my only option of communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility. I am Mr. Peter Wong director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you.
I want you to know that this is an email scam. “Peter Wong” (in this particular case) is a false name. More than likely this person is from Nigeria. That is where most of these scammers come from.
419ers Sets Fake Cops on Ebayer
Nigerian Phisher tried to Scam me on Ebay
Man gets Caught up by Nigerian E-mail scammers Look at this:
http://server-wg.de:8080/nigeria/pui_cheng.html
If you read the letter in the link above, he has some of the same elements in his plea for help. Except its from a “MR. CHEUNG PUI”. Notice that the company is the same as well, Hang Seng Bank Ltd. “Hang Seng Bank Ltd” maybe a legit complany in China (the equivalent of a Bank of America) but these Nigerian email scammer are using their name.
A 17-year-old high-school student identified only by his surname Hung has been named as one of the masterminds behind the nation's three main hacker groups…
I hope this isn't a dupe….Of all the great DIY projects at this year�s Maker Fair, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router.
