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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: MIB on February 21, 2007, 05:26:31 PM

Title: Possible cell phone text scam UL?
Post by: MIB on February 21, 2007, 05:26:31 PM

Text message to "hubby" on stolen cell phone nets purse snatcher a PIN number he uses to clean out a couple bank account.

Status is Undetermined

 Rest of story here. (http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pintheft.asp)

MIB

Title: Re: Possible cell phone text scam UL?
Post by: amazing_ned on February 22, 2007, 02:22:53 PM

I doubt it because banks do not like to make it easy for someone to withdraw all of their funds at once.

Title: Re: Possible cell phone text scam UL?
Post by: thesilente on February 25, 2007, 10:49:18 AM

Actually, i work at a bank...

We do make it difficult to withdraw all the money, unless: they know the pin

Pin verification is the say-all end-all at the bank, at least my bank, and my buddies in the same industry but other companies agree their banks go by the same ruels

Title: Re: Possible cell phone text scam UL?
Post by: rbcp on April 13, 2007, 09:53:10 AM

The article doesn't say how much "all of their money" was.  My bank lets me take $400 per day from the ATM.  That's $400 per day from each card I own.  Maybe these people didn't have a lot of money in the bank, so all of their money wasn't very much.  She could have had multiple cards too.  Like a separate savings and checking bank card, using the same pin numbers.