| 5th November 2007 09:56 AM |
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| gypsy |
A little striptease for your Web password?
New scam uses disrobing blonde to trick unsuspecting Internet users
By Jordan Robertson
The Associated Press
updated 5:46 p.m. CT, Wed., Oct. 31, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a new online striptease, the buxom, beautiful blonde who promises to remove her slinky scraps of lingerie doesn't want your money. She's interested in your brain. Really.
The creation of online scammers, she's trying to trick unsuspecting Internet users into helping the scammers break the online barriers that banks and e-mail services set up to thwart crooks.
The striptease is the latest attempt to defeat so-called CAPTCHA systems, which is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Those safeguards require users to prove they are human by reading wavy, oddly shaped jumbles of letters and numbers that appear in an image and typing them out.
In the new scam, an icon of an alluring woman suddenly appears on a Windows computer infected by a virus. After clicking on the icon, the user sees a photo of an attractive woman who vows to take off an article of clothing each time the jumble of figures next to her is entered.
But the woman never fully undresses, and after several passwords are entered the program restarts, possibly enticing unsuspecting users into trying again.
Trend Micro researchers say the scam appears to be isolated for now to spammers trying to register bogus e-mail addresses and flood chat rooms with unwanted pitches. But they worry schemes to infiltrate financial institutions could soon appear.
Paul Ferguson, network architect at Trend Micro, speculated that spammers might be using the results to write a program to automatically bypass CAPTCHA systems.
"I have to hand it to them," Ferguson said, laughing. "The social engineering aspect here is pretty clever."
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| 5th November 2007 10:08 AM |
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| gimmekeef |
She's really hot too!...I spent 2 hrs staring at her and decoding the stuff...Now apparently she has to pay all my bills and cover my bank over drafts! |
| 5th November 2007 02:20 PM |
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| Starbuck |
gyps!
you be pullin a TTM on us today...be careful you don't post too many useless articles.
ta! |
| 5th November 2007 05:57 PM |
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| gypsy |
quote:
Starbuck wrote:
gyps!
you be pullin a TTM on us today...be careful you don't post too many useless articles.
ta!
This is the kind of article I figured you guys could use, as I could totally picture some of the guys here falling victim to this scam. But then again, aren't half the guys who post here gay? Or is that just 3/4 of the members of the C10? |
| 5th November 2007 09:37 PM |
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| pdog |
2.5 of the C10 is Gay?
I gott a know who, I need some help buying clothes and oicking out furniture. |
| 5th November 2007 10:50 PM |
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| gypsy |
quote:
pdog wrote:
2.5 of the C10 is Gay?
I gott a know who, I need some help buying clothes and oicking out furniture.
It's pure speculation on my part. I'm guessing there's at least one gay C10 member. |
