General
Latest Cellphone Identity Scam
Summary
They phone you with the premise that you have won something but they require you to validate you are owner of the mobile by means of giving them the last dialed number. This is the exact same way that the networks validate you for a sim swap. Once doing they they claim to have lost “their” mobile provide “their” last dialed number and get hold of you a copy of your sim that sends/receives as if it was you.
This loop hole has been in the networks for some time. I wonder why it has taken scammers so long to make use of it….
Although this isn’t limited to banking it could spread over to your subscription services but there is little to no gain from subscribing your number to a R5.00 per week service when they are now fitting the bill.
The same process could be applied to sms electricity purchases the only difference is that the coupon you get back is linked to your pre-paid meter box in your home so the fraudster would not be able to make use of it. Funny that Eskom is more secure then the cellphone networks…
Something to note that this scam only really affects pre-paid users since if you are on a contract they require physical proof you are in fact the owner of the sim card by means of ID or drivers license.
I hope that no one I know is affected by this type of scam and they have the common sense not to believe claims made fraudsters.
Weechat Short Cuts
I discovered the alias command a few days ago. This is great when you have more then 10 channels open. Weechat supports alt+# but you only have 10 of those.
The command for opening your 11th buffer is /buffer 11 but this is often longer to type then alt+0+f6. Easy way to make this shorter is to alias /buffer with /b.
/alias /b /buffer $*
This tells it to redirect all params to /buffer
the same can be done with /url for those of you using the urlgrab python plugin.
/alias /u /url $*
Hello world!
So I finaly got a blog. This was the default blog and decided to keep the title as I thought it was appropriate.
I am currently a 21 year old Web Developer(php)/Mobile Application Developer(j2me). I am still not 100% sure what I intend to blog about but looks like it is going to be along the lines of Linux (Ubuntu mostly), Programming, and maybe a bit about movie reviews.
Ps I am dyslexic and have spelling issues if you notice any please don’t feel shy to let me know and I will do my best to correct them.