Social engineering (security)
Social engineering is commonly understood to mean the art of manipulating, Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.
By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at the other's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive. people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.
The people who need to hide their crimes say it is similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the global criminals/victims.
Accusers say "Social engineering" as an act of psychological manipulation was popularized by hacker-turned-consultant Kevin Mitnick. Global criminals name the term as associated with the social sciences, but its usage has caught on among computer professionals
Social engineering techniques and terms
All social engineering techniques are based on specific attributes of human decision-making known as cognitive biases. These biases, sometimes called "bugs in the human hardware," are exploited in various combinations to create attack techniques, some of which are listed here:
Pretexting
Pretexting is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to engage a targeted victim in a manner that increases the chance the victim will divulge information or perform actions that would be unlikely in ordinary circumstances.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Who's Who ...
Iraqi dinar Money.com .. source for hundreds of dinar sites .. who are they? who owns them? Dinar Dealers .. A lucrative business .. find out more ... go to the Link
Also read .. Pharming – Redirecting website traffic to bogus sites
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Understanding Cyber Warfare. From Cyber Warfare to Cyber Resistance
November 27, 2011
Understanding Cyber Warfare. From Cyber Warfare to Cyber Resistance
Instruments of warfare have evolved. Gone are the days of battle-axes, machetes, swords, and men charging in strategic formation or lying in trenches awaiting their foe. Instead, guns, bombs, chemical and biological agents, unmanned aircraft and assault vehicles are used as instruments of war. A more significant change from the past has been the robotic nature of the way conflict is waged, supposedly making more “humane” an inhumane act.
The changes witnessed of course parallel technological advances within society, resulting in even more wars and conflicts being waged from behind a computer screen, in a command center, and by remote control. Likewise, the ways in which resistance is carried out will parallel the technological changes and evolving nature of warfare.
The rise of cyber warfare and resistance shed light on where we are heading, with both state and non-state actors on almost equal footing in the knowledge of and potential use for viruses, worms and Trojans. Arguably, some actors operating in the realm of cyber resistance are more advanced in knowledge than the states they are battling. Is Cyber Resistance a weapon for checking the traditional and conventional military power of the state? Will it be the key for checking Israel and its inhumane and disproportionate use of force and weaponry against Palestinians?
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Understanding Cyber Warfare. From Cyber Warfare to Cyber Resistance
Instruments of warfare have evolved. Gone are the days of battle-axes, machetes, swords, and men charging in strategic formation or lying in trenches awaiting their foe. Instead, guns, bombs, chemical and biological agents, unmanned aircraft and assault vehicles are used as instruments of war. A more significant change from the past has been the robotic nature of the way conflict is waged, supposedly making more “humane” an inhumane act.
The changes witnessed of course parallel technological advances within society, resulting in even more wars and conflicts being waged from behind a computer screen, in a command center, and by remote control. Likewise, the ways in which resistance is carried out will parallel the technological changes and evolving nature of warfare.
The rise of cyber warfare and resistance shed light on where we are heading, with both state and non-state actors on almost equal footing in the knowledge of and potential use for viruses, worms and Trojans. Arguably, some actors operating in the realm of cyber resistance are more advanced in knowledge than the states they are battling. Is Cyber Resistance a weapon for checking the traditional and conventional military power of the state? Will it be the key for checking Israel and its inhumane and disproportionate use of force and weaponry against Palestinians?
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Forex: Risky Business? .. COMMISSION ADVISORY BEWARE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING FRAUDS ...
COMMISSION ADVISORY BEWARE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY TRADING FRAUDS
Forex: Risky Business?
Recently, there has been a rise in Forex transactions. Forex trading can involve a high degree of risk and may be more suitable for market professionals rather than the average retail investor. Forex, stands for foreign exchange trading. It usually means the right to buy or sell a certain amount of foreign currency at a fixed price in US dollars. In order words, you are betting on the way exchange rates will change.
Check To See If Brokers And Firms Are Licensed
Brokers and firms that trade Forex must be licensed with the National Futures Association (NFA). To check if the broker or firm that you are working with is licensed, please visit the National Futures Association BASIC Search. Forex may be traded on an exchange that is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) or off-exchange.
To find out whether firms or counterparties with whom you plan to trade are registered or regulated institutions or entities that are outside the CFTC's jurisdiction, you can check the lists of regulated institutions on the following websites. Some institutions outside the CFTC's jurisdiction do not appear on any of these lists or in other readily-available places:
Federal Reserve Board (www.federalreserve.gov)
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (www.ffiec.gov)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (www.fdic.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov)
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (www.occ.treas.gov)
Office of Thrift Supervision (www.ots.treas.gov)
National Credit Union Association (www.ncua.gov)
National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation, Inc. (www.nasdr.com)
All U.S. Government web sites can be located through links at www.firstgov.gov
Your state Attorney General's office and state banking, insurance and securities regulators (which often have their own web sites).
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Forex: Risky Business?
Recently, there has been a rise in Forex transactions. Forex trading can involve a high degree of risk and may be more suitable for market professionals rather than the average retail investor. Forex, stands for foreign exchange trading. It usually means the right to buy or sell a certain amount of foreign currency at a fixed price in US dollars. In order words, you are betting on the way exchange rates will change.
Check To See If Brokers And Firms Are Licensed
Brokers and firms that trade Forex must be licensed with the National Futures Association (NFA). To check if the broker or firm that you are working with is licensed, please visit the National Futures Association BASIC Search. Forex may be traded on an exchange that is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) or off-exchange.
To find out whether firms or counterparties with whom you plan to trade are registered or regulated institutions or entities that are outside the CFTC's jurisdiction, you can check the lists of regulated institutions on the following websites. Some institutions outside the CFTC's jurisdiction do not appear on any of these lists or in other readily-available places:
Federal Reserve Board (www.federalreserve.gov)
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (www.ffiec.gov)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (www.fdic.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov)
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (www.occ.treas.gov)
Office of Thrift Supervision (www.ots.treas.gov)
National Credit Union Association (www.ncua.gov)
National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation, Inc. (www.nasdr.com)
All U.S. Government web sites can be located through links at www.firstgov.gov
Your state Attorney General's office and state banking, insurance and securities regulators (which often have their own web sites).
read more @ link
Currency Market Scams ... Foreign Currencies ...
Recently updated material .. Link ~ Currency Market Scams ... Foreign Currencies ...
For Immediate Release – October 6, 2011
SECURITIES COMMISSIONER ORDERS CALIFORNIA FIRM TO STOP PROMOTING INVESTMENTS IN IRAQI DINAR ... Link
For Immediate Release – October 6, 2011
SECURITIES COMMISSIONER ORDERS CALIFORNIA FIRM TO STOP PROMOTING INVESTMENTS IN IRAQI DINAR ... Link
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Pharming – Redirecting website traffic to bogus sites
What is Pharming?
Pharming (pronounced “farming”) is another form of online fraud, very similar to its cousin phishing. Pharmers rely upon the same bogus Web sites and theft of confidential information to perpetrate online scams, but are more difficult to detect in many ways because they are not reliant upon the victim accepting a “bait” message. Instead of relying completely on users clicking on an enticing link in fake email messages, pharming instead re-directs victims to the bogus Web site even if they type the right Web address of their bank or other online service into their Web browser.
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Cybercrimes, Internet Fraud Online Web Scams, Cyber Crime Consumer Fraud, Internet Crime, Website Spoofing Phishing Scams
Cybercrimes, Internet Fraud Online Web Scams, Cyber Crime Consumer Fraud, Internet Crime, Website Spoofing Phishing Scams ~ Link
Monday, November 21, 2011
Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud
November 16, 2011
Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud
CFTC Charges California Residents Robert Cannone, Thomas Breen, and Francis Franco and Their Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud
The defendants charged with fraudulent solicitation, misappropriation of customer funds, and false statements
Washington, DC - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a complaint in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., charging defendants Robert J. Cannone of Laguna Niguel, Thomas B. Breen of San Juan Capistrano, Francis Franco of Anaheim, and their company National Equity Holdings, Inc. of Laguna Niguel, with fraudulently operating a $1.4 million commodity futures pool and with registration violations.
The CFTC complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that from at least May 2009 through at least May 2010, the defendants fraudulently solicited and accepted at least $1.4 million from 20 or more individuals to trade commodity futures contracts by participating in a commodity pool called NEH.
The defendants traded only a portion of the pool participant funds in proprietary accounts, sustaining overall and significant losses of approximately $582,631, according to the complaint. Defendants also allegedly misappropriated the majority of the pool participants’ funds to make so-called returns to participants in monthly payments that defendants claimed were the profitable proceeds of their trading.
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Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud
CFTC Charges California Residents Robert Cannone, Thomas Breen, and Francis Franco and Their Company, National Equities Holdings, Inc. with $1.4 Million Commodity Pool Fraud
The defendants charged with fraudulent solicitation, misappropriation of customer funds, and false statements
Washington, DC - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a complaint in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., charging defendants Robert J. Cannone of Laguna Niguel, Thomas B. Breen of San Juan Capistrano, Francis Franco of Anaheim, and their company National Equity Holdings, Inc. of Laguna Niguel, with fraudulently operating a $1.4 million commodity futures pool and with registration violations.
The CFTC complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleges that from at least May 2009 through at least May 2010, the defendants fraudulently solicited and accepted at least $1.4 million from 20 or more individuals to trade commodity futures contracts by participating in a commodity pool called NEH.
The defendants traded only a portion of the pool participant funds in proprietary accounts, sustaining overall and significant losses of approximately $582,631, according to the complaint. Defendants also allegedly misappropriated the majority of the pool participants’ funds to make so-called returns to participants in monthly payments that defendants claimed were the profitable proceeds of their trading.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
After Tip, the Claim For Reward ~ Currency Trades and Bank Overcharge
November 16, 2011
After Tip, the Claim For Reward
Whistleblowers alleging that two banks overcharged clients for currency trades could provide an early test of a new U.S. program to encourage tips of possible financial wrongdoing.
The whistleblowers, who are helping the Securities and Exchange Commission in civil investigations into whether Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and State Street Corp. improperly charged customers for currency trades, have filed claims seeking possible bounties from the SEC, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission seal outside headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The agency's whistleblower program, launched under the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul act, stemmed from calls for tougher policing of Wall Street following the financial crisis. The plan for the first time offers government bounties to financial insiders and others who tip off the SEC about alleged securities fraud, offering payments of at least $100,000 to those whose information leads to big enforcement penalties.
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After Tip, the Claim For Reward
Whistleblowers alleging that two banks overcharged clients for currency trades could provide an early test of a new U.S. program to encourage tips of possible financial wrongdoing.
The whistleblowers, who are helping the Securities and Exchange Commission in civil investigations into whether Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and State Street Corp. improperly charged customers for currency trades, have filed claims seeking possible bounties from the SEC, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission seal outside headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The agency's whistleblower program, launched under the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul act, stemmed from calls for tougher policing of Wall Street following the financial crisis. The plan for the first time offers government bounties to financial insiders and others who tip off the SEC about alleged securities fraud, offering payments of at least $100,000 to those whose information leads to big enforcement penalties.
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Helpless Indian Workers Conned into Smuggling Counterfiet Rupees (an emerging market currency) ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Helpless Indian workers conned into smuggling fake currency
Blue-collar men leaving Gulf nations are lured by free air tickets, claim Indian Intelligence reports
Indian blue-collar workers in the Gulf are being warned not to carry strangers’ luggage or accept free air tickets when travelling home.
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The Dirty Dozen .. Forex Fraud .. Investment Fraud ...
October 15, 2011
The Dirty Dozen .. Forex Fraud .. Investment Fraud.
Many people know their names. Many people are unaware that the group who is now being referred to as the Dirty Dozen have nothing but ill intentions and are ready to provide nothing .. but take everything .. including your freedom. You sign with them and you become the target of an ongoing investigation.
“Buy on the rumor, sell on the news” is a time-honored investment phrase that is oftentimes more confusing than the wisdom it attempts to impart. The meaning relates primarily to company securities that appreciate in expectation of a big news announcement. Early speculation drives ups the price, such that when the real announcement is made, most investors sell on the news to take their profits, often driving the price down, rather than up. “Pump and Dump” stock frauds also follow a similar scenario, but in this case, criminals benefit and investors lose.
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The Dirty Dozen .. Forex Fraud .. Investment Fraud.
Many people know their names. Many people are unaware that the group who is now being referred to as the Dirty Dozen have nothing but ill intentions and are ready to provide nothing .. but take everything .. including your freedom. You sign with them and you become the target of an ongoing investigation.
“Buy on the rumor, sell on the news” is a time-honored investment phrase that is oftentimes more confusing than the wisdom it attempts to impart. The meaning relates primarily to company securities that appreciate in expectation of a big news announcement. Early speculation drives ups the price, such that when the real announcement is made, most investors sell on the news to take their profits, often driving the price down, rather than up. “Pump and Dump” stock frauds also follow a similar scenario, but in this case, criminals benefit and investors lose.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Links ~ Financial Fraud Articles ~ Victims who lost millions to Madoff's fraudulent investments said "But he seemed so nice"..."we were friends"...
Links ~ Financial Fraud Articles ~ Victims who lost millions to Madoff's fraudulent investments said "But he seemed so nice"..."we were friends"... Victims who lost millions to Madoff's fraudulent investments said "But he seemed so nice"..."we were friends"... "his client list was inpressive" etc... Madoff Scammed His Own Family ... 150-year prison sentence for convicted Ponzi scheme swindler Bernard Madoff ...
Foreign Currency Fraud ~ Court Ordered ~ to Pay More than $4.5 Million for Operating Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme ...
Your Dream of a Lifetime ...
FBI Agent Explains How To Spot Liars ~ Can you Spot a Liar? It's Difficult Over the Internet ...
Investment fraud ~ Iraqi Dinar ~ Colo. Tells Firm To Stop Promoting Investments In Iraqi Dinar ...
'bout time" ~ IRS Targets Five Illegal Trusts ... bumped by request ...
Madoff trustee adds claims in $2 billion UBS lawsuit
IRS warns of 'Dirty Dozen' tax scams (con artists out in force over the web) Be Careful ...
Trust you instinct and don't hand over your hard earned money to one of the hundreds of con-artists. Investigate First ...
Spyware - "Remember, anyone can pretend to be anybody and that means taking precaution until you know Exactly who is who in cyberland" ...
fbi.gov: Former Principal of AFW Wealth Advisers Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 97 Months in Prison for Multimillion-Dollar Fraud
Investment Fraud ~ You've heard it many times before: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Be Prepared and Be Aware ...