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| Quote: Every day we use the internet to shop, book travel and do our banking. To do this we share personal information such as our name and address, credit cards numbers and enter our passwords. We need to be able to do this with confidence, knowing that our information is being used only by the company or organization that we intended to share it with. | |
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| Quote: To prove just how vulnerable your personal information is, Internet Explorer 8 re-recreated notorious internet scams--live, off the web-- in the most street-smart city in world: New York. We used hidden cameras to film reactions of real people. In the first spot we asked people to provide very personal information in order to open a new bank account which would give them a cash reward of $500. We learned that, just as it is online, it can be hard to tell the difference between the scammer and the real thing. We filmed a lot of people and nearly all of them were convinced our “bank” was the real deal. | |
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We learnt about this in one of our modules this last year. Our lecturer (a guest lecturer who's real job was a sys admin) had been on the train into London once and some guy got a phone call and then made several more phone calls. The lecturer was able to determine the initial phone call was to say there was a problem with some servers and that no one was in yet to deal with it. The next few phone calls relayed information like the address of the company, the address name and phone number of several sys admins for the company, various passwords, etc. The guy then called and arranged for a hire car to be delivered to his house, this revealed his name and address plus credit card details...
My lecturer wrote this all down and gave it to the guy as he walked off the bus saying "I think this is yours", the was gobsmacked apparently.
So there you are, you don't just have to watch out for scams, but also your big gob
