[news] Scammer FAIL! - Fake ATM at Defcon

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Fake ATM doesn't last long at hacker meet

 

In a prize display of stupidity a criminal group of scammers left a fake ATM machine at host hotel for Defcon. Unsuprisingly the security professionsls quickly identified the fake and reported it to authorities.

 

As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that at ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't quite look right, according to a senior conference organizer who identified himself only as Priest. "They looked at the screen where there would normally be a camera," he said. "It was a little bit too dark, so someone shined a flashlight in there and there was a PC."

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In a prize display of stupidity a criminal group of scammers left a fake ATM machine at host hotel for Defcon. Unsuprisingly the security professionsls quickly identified the fake and reported it to authorities.

From the reports i've read, it sounds it was there before the confernece started so i doubt that they knew what events where happening there and placed it there because its a confernece center so businessy people would be around.

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Yes it does sound like it was there before but the fact that they did not bother to check and left it there for when the Defcon people arrived totally counds as stupidity.