Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > > Is this the one where they execute a man-in-the-middle attack on the > > economy? > > > > e.g.: they pose as a contractor and establish a contract with a client, > > while posing as the client to establish a contract with the contractor; > > the job gets done, and the money gets paid... just into the scammer's > > account rather than the contractor's. > > There's a variant of that attack. Sometimes the attacker changes > the prices reported, pockets the difference, and passes along the > rest. There's even a special term for that kind of attack: "reseller" > > HHOS.
AKA: "middle man". But this is the actual news-story that I was remembering: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/10/22/1828256/For-3-Years-Scammers-Ran-Truckless-Trucking-Company?art_pos=1 -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/