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Thread ID: 57341	2005-04-30 01:17:00	Internet Banking Fraud Quite Common in NZ?	vinref (6194)	PC World Chat

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350555	2005-04-30 01:17:00	Heres an article (www.nzherald.co.nz) from the Herald about someone being duped out of $34k from his BNZ account. The thieves spent the loot on Trademe. At the bottom are details of what other banks have reported - it looks quite common. They surmise that trojan keystroke loggers are involved, so it does look like these are numnuts who don't shore up their PCs properly.	vinref (6194)
350556	2005-04-30 02:40:00	Once again we have uneducated fools leaving their virtual wallets wide open. Let me provide an analogy. Not using proper Firewall/Spyware/Virus/Malware protection on your PC and then using it for Internet Banking is like... Walking up to an ATM, leaving your card in the slot with your pin number written on the back and thinking... 'The security cameras will capture it all. By the time I get back someone will have realized the person using that card is a thief and the police will have already caught them.' Not Bloody likely. Just protect yourself, your family and your friends. Leave the idiots out there to get burnt and leave them to ring up and whinge to ASB about $500 going missing because they thought 'protect your pc from hackers' pop-ups were the way to go.	Aurealis_ (7897)
350557	2005-04-30 04:19:00	It didn't actually say whether the key-logger was on his own PC or if he had gone to an internet cafe. The article mentioned a bank (not his) stating that people shouldn't use internet cafes for internet banking. Either way its like going down the shops and leaving your house door open. Maybe it will be ok but its asking for it. I was rather horrified as a friend who works in IT rang and was going on about his new PC he's going to build and how slow the old one is and as a joke I said, must be all the spyware on it and he said "whats spyware?" And sure enough, it was infested. Like fleas on a dog.	pctek (84)
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