[OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> <rozzin at 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

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