We have seen our share of weird cases involving Craigslist, but nothing like these: Continue reading ‘Craigslist Crooks’
Tag Archive for 'Dirty Tricks'
A good look at how modern crooks operate from Michael Thomas at The Daily Caveat.
Hedge Fund Dirty Tricks and the HBOS Implosion
You’ll love this article from The Daily Telegraph - an inside look at the “dirty-tricks unit” of a London-based hedge fund. This story has all the good stuff - PIs, hacking, the obligatory sub-prime mortgage crisis connection, rogue traders, market manipulation - it’s one stop shopping.
An interesting post on B2B Sales Pipline:
Adam…asked a pricing question about an application component that could not be purchased alone…
…this question doesn’t pass the “Smell Test”…
Called him anyway…Cell Phone, with no company name provided…
…search Adam’s name in LinkedIn. Lo and behold - Adam works for a competitor. I called the competitors office, asked for Adam, and let him know that I would love to chat with him, since it’s always good for competitors to get to know each other. At the time of this posting, Adam has not called me back, and has likely joined the witness protection program.
This kind of amateurish nonsense passes for Competitive Intelligence far too often.
Infamous hacker Kevin Poulson paid the defaulted Yellow Page accounts of escort services to get their defunct telephone numbers reactivated. He collected the profits and when the police became interested, only the original advertiser was on record with the telephone company. I once saw this done in a home renovation scam.
In Cynthia Hetherington’s excellent book, Business Background Investigations: Tools and Techniques for Solution Driven Due Diligence, she tells of a group of crooks who moved into an office recently vacated by an insurance company. They took-up the old phone number and began selling insurance.
When new policy holders complained about bad service to the insurance company’s head office, the scam was revealed, but the crooks had moved on.
It’s not just people who have their identity stolen.
I just found this:
“WikiLeaks.org is developing an uncensorable version of WikiPedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.”
I’m not sure how I might use this site, but it does have some very interesting instructions on how to submit material anonymously.
