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Speaking of zones of death, I was recently the (unsuccessful) target of a credit card gathering scam—on a Twitter ad, pretending to be Twitter. https://twitter
by bcjordan 10y ago
Speaking of zones of death, I was recently the (unsuccessful) target of a credit card gathering scam—on a Twitter ad, pretending to be Twitter.
https://twitter.com/bcjordan/status/819894043870105602 https://twitter.com/bcjordan/status/819894043870105602
Multiple users actually entered their CC #s, two canceled them after they saw my reply to the tweet warning users.
Incredibly, Twitter has still not notified the scammed users about it despite removing the ad after my report and multiple tweets to support requesting they notify the affected users.
The fact that they allowed that ad to get through (essentially profiting from users identities and financial information being leaked?!) is just unbelievable, separate from their failure to protect/notify the users affected by the scam.
- madeofpalk 10y agothat is bonkers.
- djsumdog 10y agoI don't know why you'd need to scam people on Twitter. There are plenty of people who just post photos of their cards: https://twitter.com/needadebitcard https://twitter.com/needadebitcard
- Theodores 10y agoThat is excellent. My colleagues in ecommerce will have kittens over that. Sometimes we wonder if such and such country or such and such bank uses chip and pin. We can just test our online checkout to find out!!!
- syphilis2 10y agoI was pleasantly surprised when my grandmother showed me her new chip credit card and it didn't have the numbers stamped on the front. They're instead printed on the back. I suspect the bank was getting sick of issuing new numbers after people inadvertently posted their own card numbers online.
- jmkni 10y agoThat's just depressing
- karthikp 10y agoThat's actually quite well done