Criminals looking for a discontinued Nokia
EAST EUROPEAN CRIMINALS are willing to pay thousands for a clapped out Nokia with a software problem, according to a fraud investigator in the Netherlands.
Frank Engelsman said that cyber-gangs are paying 25,000 Euro for a Nokia 1100 phone which was once Nokia's all-time best-selling models in 2003.
Engelsman said the only ones that were worth anything were made in a factory in Bochum, Germany and contain software from 2002 that is vulnerable to tampering.
Apparently, the handsets can be used to intercept one-time passwords needed to complete an online banking transaction.
All the crims need to do is reprogramme the phone to use someone else's phone number, intercept the TAN code and enable an illegal money transfer into their own account. µ
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So doesn't the hacker still need the corresponding username/pass? Granted, it's one less layer of working security... but it's not game over?
Better do some fact checking next time. The phones are on sale from eBay for less than $100. Hardly worth making a story about it. Unless there's some secret sauce to the particular series of Nokia 1100 your talking about ...
"the only ones that were worth anything were made in a factory in Bochum, Germany and contain software from 2002 that is vulnerable to tampering." Not all the phones were made in Germany, only some of them and therefore they're the ones criminals want!
bag one for £20
http://phones.shop.ebay.co.uk/items/Mobile-Phones__nokia-1100_W0QQ_catrefZ1QQ_flnZ1QQ_sacatZ3312QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em282
i just saw on ebay 22 pound this mobile. i don t know why saying 32000 dollar?
i am having 1 piece of nokia 1100 made in germany plz provide me the best price
of what you can give the i can give the photo also to the serious
buyers my email id is sufiyanrajwani @ gmail . com, +919998152560
Hi All
I have one nokia1100 germany make for sale.Contact me on nokia1100sale@yahoo.com
if someone are interested just email me .
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Well in my country the phone is selling about 300 - 800 euros.
For a piece of crap, it's a lot of money and it's a story
i have nokia 1100,rh 18,made in germany,for selling. please contact me on the e-mail danuts@mail.ru,or call on the number 373 78 22 58 03