[37308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: black hat .cn networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Tue May 8 19:55:31 2001
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Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:54:53 -0400
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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"Bryan C. Andregg" wrote:
> John Fraizer wrote:
>>
>> The story I read had it as two individuals. The not-so-bright one
>> who had access to the bank and the bright one who designed and
>> built a device to put inline at the bank. The device diverted the
>> equiv of pennies per transaction that passed through it to a bank
>> account that the two had set up somewhere. It was a brilliant
>> scheme. They screwed up by trying to withdrawl huge amounts of
>> money at a time. THAT's what got them caught.
>
> Isn't that the plot to Superman III?
Yes. There are allegedly several instances of this happening. It is
unknown which (if any) of these are actually true:
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/salami.htm
-- David
