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Innovative ways to fool people
Scott Granneman, 2006-05-04

Scott Granneman's latest column looks at recent security examples where people have been fooled in increasingly innovative ways: from keyloggers used in a massive bank heist and new Trojans that encrypt data and request ransom money, to real financial rip-offs that extend out from online virtual gaming worlds like World of Warcraft.

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Innovative ways to fool people 2006-05-05
Anonymous
Speaking of virtual worlds making real money you forgot THE greatest ones: stock exchanges. What are they other than virtual worlds?
For example, the rising price of oil made hundreds of billions of dollars to some, based purely on speculations that somebody will do this or that, while the produci...

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