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[Boing Boing] Phishing scheme goes after carbon credits Boing Boing: Using a pretty basic "You need to re-register your account" email, a group of phishers managed to swipe carbon credit permits””basically, entitlements to produce greenhouse gas emissions above the cut-off level stipulated by .

[Gizmodo] Phishing for Carbon: Hackers Steal Millions in Emissions ...: The modern hacker knows that the real money's in carbon emission trade credits. No, seriously: a recent phishing expedition reaped over $4 million from carbon-emitting companies .

[statism watch] statism watch » Blog Archive » Carbon trade phish scam disrupts ...: Note: Carbon?] permits were raided via a network of corrupt brokers and intermediaries via a scheme akin to VAT carousel fraud, where crooks collect the tax on easy to trade goods such as mobile phones before disappearing before a tax bill becomes due.

[Boing Boing] Hackers swipe millions of dollars worth of carbon credit swaps ...: The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up, Up" is also about a (mysterious) company amassing carbon credits like crazy. OK: it's set in Brazil (not Germany), and it's not a phishing scam: something else entirely...

[CarbonPig] Carbon trading fraudsters steal permits worth £2.7m in 'phishing' scam: Around 250000 permits worth €3m were stolen from six companies in Germany in last week's "phishing attack", which was first reported to the German national carbon registry on Friday. Permit trading on the German registry was closed .

[ENVIROGY] Cyber-hackers steal thousands of carbon credits « E N V I R O G Y: Hackers sent e-mails last Thursday to several companies in Europe, Japan and New Zealand which appeared to originate from the Potsdam-based German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt), part of the EU’s Emission Trading System (EU ETS). The cyber-thieves then exploited the user data that was entered into their spoof Web site to transfer emissions allowances to other accounts, mainly in Denmark and Britain, from which they were quickly resold.

[Green Inc.] Hackers Hit Europe's Carbon Market - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: The fraudsters used “a malicious Web site” and asked respondents to “disclose their user identification code and password” - a practice known as phishing in the jargon of the Internet - according to the European Commission, which oversees the system.

[Nonsense++] Phishing for Carbon: Hackers Steal Millions in Emissions ...: Credit cards numbers? Please. Medical records? Booooring. The modern hacker knows that the real money's in carbon emission trade”¦

[Dvorak Uncensored] » “Pssst. Hey Buddy. Wanna buy a Rolex, gold chain, some carbon ...: Gosh, Al Gore is the one politician most associated with global warming (now called climate change) and you’re shocked, just SHOCKED when he’s tied in with the scam. Al’s made a sweet billion (yes, billion) off this scam and he’s made a sucker out of all of us.

[Free Readings Online] Free Readings Online » Blog Archive » Phishing scheme goes after ...: Using a pretty basic "You need to re-register your account" email, a group of phishers managed to swipe carbon credit permits””basically, entitlements to produce greenhouse gas emissions above the cut-off level stipulated by .

[digoBlog: news on tech & games] digoBlog: news on tech & games » Blog Archive » Phishing for ...: The hackers sent emails to 2,000 companies in Germany alone, claiming to be from the German Emissions Trading Authority, which keeps track of carbon credits and transactions. The email requested that the companies re-register their accounts, and the information the duped employees provided was then used—you guessed it—to access the companies' GETA accounts and and clean them out.

[CarbonCredit.com] CarbonCredit.com » Phishing for Carbon Credits - RedState (blog): RedState (blog) The workers were told that their companies needed to re-register their accounts with the Authority, where carbon credits and transactions are recorded. Carbon credits phishing scam revealedInfosecurity Magazine .

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