{"id":7320,"date":"2025-10-01T05:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/details-of-a-scam-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:03:26","slug":"details-of-a-scam-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/details-of-a-scam-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Details of a Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Details of a Scam<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Longtime Crypto-Gram readers know that I collect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/02\/details-of-a-phone-scam.html\">personal experiences<\/a> of people being scammed. Here\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/18\/nyregion\/zelle-chase-banking-scam.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.mifp.13j7oh96HfpC&amp;smid=url-share&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">almost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Then he added, \u201cHere at Chase, we\u2019ll never ask for your personal information or passwords.\u201d On the contrary, he gave me more information\u2014two \u201ccancellation codes\u201d and a long case number with four letters and 10 digits.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when he offered to transfer me to his supervisor. That simple phrase, familiar from countless customer-service calls, draped a cloak of corporate competence over this unfolding drama. His <i>supervisor<\/i>. I mean, would a scammer have a supervisor?<\/p>\n<p>The line went mute for a few seconds, and a second man greeted me with a voice of authority. \u201cMy name is Mike Wallace,\u201d he said, and asked for my case number from the first guy. I dutifully read it back to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, yes, I see,\u201d the man said, as if looking at a screen. He explained the situation\u2014new account, Zelle transfers, Texas\u2014and suggested we reverse the attempted withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not proud to report that by now, he had my full attention, and I was ready to proceed with whatever plan he had in mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It happens to smart people who know better. It could happen to you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/09\/details-of-a-scam.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of a Scam Longtime Crypto-Gram readers know that I collect personal experiences of people being scammed. Here\u2019s an almost: Then he added, \u201cHere at Chase, we\u2019ll never ask for your personal information or passwords.\u201d On the contrary, he gave me more information\u2014two \u201ccancellation codes\u201d and a long case number with four letters and 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,57,1887,465,388,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-bruce-schneier","category-impersonation","category-scams","category-social-engineering","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}