FBI: Social Media, Virtual Currency Fraud Becoming a Huge Problem 39
coondoggie writes: Criminals taking advantage of personal data found on social media and vulnerabilities of the digital currency system are two of the emerging Internet law-breaking trends identified by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in its annual look at online crime. The IC3 said 12% of the complaints submitted in 2014 contained a social media trait. Complaints involving social media have quadrupled over the last five years. In most cases, victim’s personal information was exploited through compromised accounts or social engineering.
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- that one of the biggest source of problems happens to be >o?the government of the United States of America
Actually, Corporations that got in good with the mob run the government, and neither have much use for the law aside from what money they can manage to make off of it. Take at look at the TPP deal where corps can sue the government now, and the mob has been manipulating the court room since the 30's that I know of. Can anyone say '91 Naples Italy? Going to get real messy if it is ever going to g
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Look at how many websites require you to enter your name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer just to sign up for an account these days.
No, they require you to enter "A" name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer... Damn few actually verify a thing. But keeping track of all that data is hard without a good keyminder (like keypassX) and keeping track of a keyminder is a lot of work itself. Too many people would rather just give FaceBook all there infos. So you get the inevitable result of people being lazy with security.
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Look at how many websites require you to enter your name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer just to sign up for an account these days.
No, they require you to enter "A" name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer... Damn few actually verify a thing. But keeping track of all that data is hard without a good keyminder (like keypassX) and keeping track of a keyminder is a lot of work itself. Too many people would rather just give FaceBook all there infos. So you get the inevitable result of people being lazy with security.
How hard is it to keep a fictional identity? Just pick one, birth day, legal name and the like. Use your made up identity for everybody by default, until you are faced with situations where the REAL information is legally required. Unless you are just crazy about not being tracked and think you need to keep everything separate... In which case you need to make sure you never use your internet connection from your cellphone or at home (Not to mention you need to be careful to use only public WiFi connecti
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Look at how many websites require you to enter your name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer just to sign up for an account these days. This is not a social media problem, this is a business problem. Corporate America made this problem in name of profit and is trying to pass the dangers of it onto the government/taxpayers like usual.
Which is why I ALWAYS lie to such sites... The only businesses who get my legal name and birthday are ones that legally require it, everybody else gets a standard fictional set of data that's somewhat related, but not my real information. Yea, I get facebook "Happy Birthday's" on the wrong day and a lot of my friends don't know my real birthday isn't what they think, but my data isn't at risk of accidental exposure this way.
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Wrong Authority (Score:2)
The FBI is not really the correct authority to deal with this problem. It should really be an empowered communications authority that works with local and federal policing agencies to track and prosecute these communications network crimes. It could certainly escalate up to a federal investigation but the initial response should be much more readily accessible to the public and a focus on fines for poor network behaviour. This then escalating up to agents in the field for more intense investigation, not co
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What are the constitutional bounds of this 'empowered communications authority'? If, as you say, it could 'escalate up' to a federal investigation, you are implying it would be something with lesser authority.
We don't need 'World Cyber Police' yet. There isn't a democratic framework for it to operate within.
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We don't need 'World Cyber Police' yet. There isn't a democratic framework for it to operate within.
But we do since cyber crime almost always crosses state, and federal boundaries. Usually on purpose to make investigation harder. But you are correct in that setting up something like this and not having it abused will be very hard.
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Which is why you tend to limit it to minor fines, a simple network traffic authority and for more severe crimes you escalate it to a full investigation by other authorities. It means a lot of current major felonies in terms of computer and network crimes drop to misdemeanour's and fines but they are much more readily applied, in much the same context as a speeding fine or a parking fine. So an administrative regulatory authority. The main feature being skilled people who can keep up with computer crimes an
bail THIS one out, boys (Score:2, Insightful)
Nobody in the financial scandal went to prison (Score:1)
That really sums up the inherent, intentional dysfunction in American "justice".
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... and then everyone that they took advantage of...
that lost everything...
got nothing...
unless you consider s completely destroyed credit history something...
"Real" currency fraud is not a problem, of course (Score:4, Insightful)
It's ok, they just slap some silly fine and noone goes to jail.
But virtual currency fraud is a really serious one.
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Complaints (Score:4, Interesting)
Complaints involving social media have quadrupled over the last five years.
Perhaps usage of online social media has also quadrupled over the last five years.
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Yeah, well what ever and stuff because you would have had no idea that social media leaks and Bitcoin theft have been on the rise because, fuck, Bitcoin didn't even exist that long ago and stuff but the FBI has done a lot of forensics, probably via spectrometric analysis of finger prints and DNA and stuff to give you this information that you would have never in your wildest dreams have ever thought possible and stuff.
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...Bitcoin theft have been on the rise because, fuck, Bitcoin didn't even exist that long ago and stuff...
But EverQuest fraud and gold theft was a problem and was worked on by the FBI. As I remember, some fraud rings were found to have stolen millions of US Dollars worth of gold and other items.
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Gold theft was very common way before the FBI was around.
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Hey! What a coincidence! These two must be correlated -- not necessarily causative; yes!
(Also posting to fix my accidental moderation)
The Wild West of the internet (Score:1)
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If you use your phone with Facebook, they know exactly who you are, as does any other site.
Because Facebook (and others) can instantly check that data attached to the phone, you may want to ponder why that is possible.
And then be sensible and "delete" your Facebook account.
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They don't know exactly who I am at all. That would take an IMEI number and a database that they don't have.
Completely untrue. When you sign in to Facebook on your device, they have access to your phone number (if you haven't already voluntarily given it to them) and device ID (not IMEI, but a unique identifier). They also get to have access to your contact list. All of your friends have also given them their contact lists. It isn't hard to correlate all those lists and numbers, combined with messaging histories and usage patterns, to know exactly who *everyone* is, even if you DON'T have a Facebook account.
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If you use your phone with Facebook, they know exactly who you are, as does any other site.
Only if you use the app. The web site can not get your private data via the web browser.
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Maybe, Normally I would agree with that, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out otherwise.
In any case I would imagine most use the app.
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But, if you are talking to people who actually exist, that you know, or even a celebrity and you make death threats or hateful comments, then I believe you should still be able to be prosecuted and fined at the least.
Hateful comments? Call somebody a Nazi, go to jail.
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Hateful comments? Call somebody a Nazi, go to jail.
They can get stronger. Brows Slashdot at -1 and see...
Hay FBI (Score:2)
IC3 GTFO
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It's not illegal to steal bits.
Tell that to the RIAA and MPAA, and those asshats in Germany. Oh, and the City of London Police...
I'm not sure now stealing crypto-currencies can be a crime. They're not money. They're hardly property. They don't have any real value.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
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