A plot to take insignificant pennies from a users bank account and move them to the attackers bank account is an example of
A.
Social Engineering
B.
Salami Scam
C.
Pranks
D.
Hoaxes
Explanation:
B: A variant on the concept of logic bombs involves what is known as the salami scam. The basic idea involves siphoning off small amounts of money (in some versions, fractions of a cent) credited to a specific account, over a large number of transactions. Pranks are very much a part of the computer culture, so much so that you can now buy commercially produced joke packages that allow you to perform stupid Mac (or PC or Windows) tricks. Hoaxes use an odd kind of social engineering, relying on peoples naturally gregarious nature and desire to communicate, and on a sense of urgency and importance, using the ambition that people have to be the fi rst to provide important new information. Page 224.
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salami fraud
A fraud where a very small amount of money is removed from each transaction and put into a suspense account (the amounts – 1p or 1c per transaction – are so small that no one notices them, but over a period of time they build up to large sums of money.
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