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Offline Coco

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Westminster/Pay-by-Phone Fraud
« on: 08 November, 2012, 11:07:52 AM »
Read this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20239746

And how did the "fraudsters" get hold of the victims' details? Clearly this was either someone inside Westminster?Pay-by-Phone or their IT security is piss-poor. Either way it is yet another failing on the part of Westminster's parking department.

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Re: Westminster/Pay-by-Phone Fraud
« Reply #1 on: 28 November, 2012, 01:07:56 PM »
Confirmation from the experts of the malware problem is found here:

www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/pay_by_phone_parking_receipt_malware/

WE ARE WATCHING YOU

Offline Ewan Hoosami

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Re: Westminster/Pay-by-Phone Fraud
« Reply #2 on: 28 November, 2012, 05:17:49 PM »

The council said it had received complaints from 800 people saying they had received fraudulent emails. However, it could not provide an estimate for the number of emails that had been sent out.

It added that it had put a warning on the council website and the PaybyPhone website.



Methinks they didn't;

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/transportandstreets/parking/wheretopark/pay-by-phone-parking/

https://www.verrus.com/westminster/registration.aspx

https://paybyphone.co.uk/news/

Maybe Wastemonster are contemplating getting in on the action themselves. After all, it's only a small step away from issuing fraudulent PCNs.

Appealing to the council is like playing chess with a pigeon. You might be a chess grand master but the pigeon will always knock all the pieces over, shit on the board and then strut around triumphantly.

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Re: Westminster/Pay-by-Phone Fraud
« Reply #3 on: 29 November, 2012, 09:22:20 AM »
Confirmation from the experts of the malware problem is found here:

www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/pay_by_phone_parking_receipt_malware/
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Sounds like yet another good reason for not parking in Westminster!

 


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