Very interesting read. I had a phone call from a customer of ours that was targetted personally. I spent the past several hours unfolding this scam, and one of the most targetted ones that I've seen in a very long time.
Worth the read, and wow - the organization on this.
I'm glad they reached out to me, normally I get "the subject line has my password, am I hacked?" phone calls from people.
I listened and immediately got my friends at the FBI involved in this one.
Local police/Sherriff even thought this was real and not a scam.
They used a number of techniques social engineering wise to ensure success, and honestly - if it hadn't been for MoneyPak - I probably would have fallen for this also.
The level of organization, multiple individuals perfect English speaking, and personal info is legit.
I wrote this blog with assistance from @rpargman at #BinaryDefense - this really caught our eye as the level of effort here individually has yielded a very large net return of $4,000+ with a high level of success to someone that was already skeptical.
Even when "Mary" walked into the sheriff's office, they believed this was a legitimate campaign and that "Mary" in fact missed jury duty. They even called the fake number and validated that "Yep this is the sheriff's office".
Think if her husband had not called me to validate.
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