[ale] OT: online banking hack

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Wed May 14 18:27:29 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 14 May 2003 07:07 am, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> Most, if not all spam, is borderline...if not blatantly fraudulent. The
> perp was not trying to break into the bank's servers. He was trying to
> dupe you into giving up your user/pass combo so he wouldn't have to.

Well, sure, but this kind of thing is covered under existing statutes on bank 
fraud. I don't think you could say the same thing about penis enlargement 
spam.
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