Blackhacker

One if my favorite series of commercials are the Citibank ones that show the victims of ID Theft talking in the voice of those who have stolen from them.
The NY Times has an interesting piece about a real serial ID Thief. While this peace does a good job of Chronicling, the perpetrators, history as an ID Thief, and covering the motivations, or at least what he tells us where is motivations, this being the NY Times and not a publication more technically oriented, it only glosses over the how. Basically the guy said he just used phishing. To get the needed data, or bought data from online brokers of stolen data. I’m more interested in some of the social engineering, beyond phishing that would be necessary, for him to pull of some of his scams. Or how he would be able to show up at a dealership with 27,000 in cash, in cash i mean actual currency, And him being able to walk out with a vehicle no questions asked. In order for someone his age, to live such an expensive life style, with perceivable source of income, he has got to be part con artists. I want to know about that. Knowledge about the con is the only way we can craft policies, and procedures to defend against them.