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>Someone who lives across the backyard from me was social-engineered out of several months' salary. Almost their complete savings. It was a nasty story, and no,
by cowtools 4y ago
>Someone who lives across the backyard from me was social-engineered out of several months' salary. Almost their complete savings. It was a nasty story, and no, the money hasn't been returned.
Let me guess, bank transfers? Maybe we should think about improving banking security and informing users before we try locking down nearly every piece of consumer electronics on the market. There is no need for these "banking apps" to exist in the first place. What happened to online banking over the web? Where is the accountability of these banks here? Where is the personal accountability from these users?
I really don't buy this argument. If you can't practice basic security and due diligence, you shouldn't have an online banking account, let alone a computer, you should be in a nursing home.
- Arnt 4y agoYour guess is wrong. It was a two-step attack that relied on social engineering and misleading. They had scammed about fifty people in Munich by the time it was in the papers, and my guess is that a substantial number of ordinary adults here would fall for it. Personally, I consider it quite reasonable if our OSes are set up to make it difficult to scam regular people, even at the cost of making my tinkering difficult. It's the sensible default, IMO. Feel free to disagree, or even to downvote me. (I'm sure some of the fifty-odd people used apps to pay the criminals, but that wasn't relevant to the way the scam worked.)
- josephcsible 4y agoWhat changes to the OS would have prevented the kind of scam you're talking about?