Social engineering via paper mail

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Following up on yesterday's social engineering post, the banking scammers don't just rely on ZBot -- the good old "paper based" advance fee or fake letter approaches still work, too.

ISC reader David, for example, got a fedex envelope with an unexpected check over 2'850$, with him as recipient. Diligent security specialist that he is, he called the issuing bank .. and found out that the account against which the check was drawn had zero funds.