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Whose Grift Is It Anyway guides you through the world of grifters, scammers and con artists, to see what we can learn about them and the systems that protect them. In an absolute coincidence, started this account because a famous grifter named Elon Musk is actively destroying Twitter. I am your humble Grift Master.

Now seems like a good time to point out that the original X.com was plagued with a security vulnerability that made it possible for anyone with someone’s account and routing number to transfer money to X.com and then withdraw it, what with Elon Musk trying to get back into FinTech. #Twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/28/business/security-flaw-discovered-at-online-bank.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189685146/elon-musk-twitter-logo-bird-x

Security Flaw Discovered at Online Bank

X.com Bank, new online bank that is division of First Western National Bank, permitted customers for almost a month to transfer funds from any other account in nation's banking system; as a result, someone armed with another person's account number and bank routing number could move money from that account to Internet bank, then withdraw it; vulnerability was apparently discovered and exploited by at least one Internet grifter; company's executives acknowledge that they contacted law enforcement officials because of one incident, but say dollar amounts involved 'are not significant'; X.com chief executive William Harris says company has changed its procedure for authorizing new accounts after it had discovered about 10 instances in which inaccurate or suspicious numbers had been entered into online application forms (M)

The New York Times