Apparently yesterday
was another of those “nothing interesting happened” days...
9News had a segment on
this “hack,” making it sound like the scam-du-jour. It's been
around for a while (note the date on Bruce's article) but apparently
not worth fixing?
Gift
Card Hack
December
8, 2006
This
is a clever hack against gift cards:
Seems
they take the cards off the racks in stores and copy down [Now
they take photos with their smartphones Bob] the serial
numbers. Later on, they check to see if the card is activated, and
if the answer is yes, they go on a shopping spree from the store's
website.
What's the security
problem? A serial number on the cards that's visible even though the
card is not activated. This could be mitigated by hiding the serial
number behind a scratch-off coating, or opaque packaging.
I'm thinking that
Centennial Colorado can be the home of the new “Centennial Dollar!”
Current exchange rate is $5 per “CD” (Big discount if you
convert a $10,000 or more...)
Kanye
West-inspired currency 'to launch soon'
… Virtual
currencies are often linked to the purchase of illegal items, namely
drugs, thanks to transactions being extremely difficult to trace.
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