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Post by account_disabled on Nov 22, 2023 5:48:31 GMT -5
More rarely, fraud is attempted to gain access to a protected system or obtain other types of information. This is the case of the so-called "book thief", a young thirty-year-old Italian accused of wire fraud and identity theft for stealing over a thousand unpublished books by posing as a publisher. Let's retrace its history together to understand the tactics of phishing and online fraud. Over 160 fraudulent internet domains to disguise your identity For more than 5 years Filippo Bernardini. A thirty-year-old Italian employee in London at Simon & Schuster, one of the Special Data largest US publishing houses, stole unpublished manuscripts from some of the most famous writers of recent years. The thefts occurred mainly via email and, as in any phishing attempt , it was the writers themselves who sent the unpublished content to the "thief". According to what emerges, in fact, Bernardini proceeded in a schematic way: having found the victim, he contacted her via email with messages in which he pretended to be. A prominent personality in the publishing industry through false email addresses and convinced her to have the unpublished manuscripts delivered. To plan the scams, Bernardini registered over 160 domain names similar to those of well-known publishing houses . For example, posing as Penguin Random House, a prestigious publishing group, he used the domain “penguinrandornhouse.schematic way: having found the victim, he contacted her via email with messages in which he pretended to be.
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