I just heard about an interesting social engineering theft.

A friend's mom recently moved into an apartment complex.

At some point a theif contacted the apartment complex management impersonating the moms bank.

The thief convinced them that 6 months of rent money was taken from the wrong bank account and they needed it returned.

The complex, without contacting the mom, "returned" the money. Idk if this was to the moms account or if the theif provided an alternative account.

The apartment complex is now in the process of evicting their tenent. And collecting the "overdue rent".

Who's the victim in this? Are there two? Is the apartment complex victimizing their tenent? Does it matter who owned the account that the money was returned to?

The thief also played the same scam with the moms cell phone provider. They credited the account for the lost money and provided additional credits.

I offered to help a friend recover some family photos from a laptop they could no longer access. Once I was done they asked if I could restore it to factory defaults.

I'm still not sure why but I agreed to that last part.

It took 7+ hours to "restore". Let's see how long the update and reboot roller coaster takes.

🪟🎢

You want to pull the "It works on my machine" card.

Okay - but first ask yourself a simple question.

Are you also the person responsible for putting that code into production and managing the machines it runs on.

😜I thought so!

Some days the battery in my laptop last 6ish hours. Other days (today) it won't even last two.

I start with a fresh boot every morning and only use the terminal and Firefox with no more than a couple of tabs open to the same websites everyday.

Oh, and slack but not today.