They will need to send them money back or purchase something to send to the scammer.
Could be a computer that needs to be configured at corporate or something purchased from them posing as a vendor.
A common thing is they send an overpayment and request money be sent back immediately.
It can be considered participating in money laundering and I know of 'victims' who are unable to open bank accounts.
And of course the original funds will turn out to be bad.
They'll still have a problem with the bank as the check will eventually be reversed. With the know your customer laws banks are getting pretty cautious dealing with people who deposit checks that are associated with money laundering scams.
My mother has an aide who has fallen for a couple similar scams and is now unable to open a bank account with the major retail banks.
You can lookup SIC codes (Standard Industrial Classification)for different industries from the link and purchase lists of the ones you need. One service is here but there are many. https://siccode.com/search-sic/veterinary
Could the first password change request have been malicious?
The subsequent resets may not work because the email has been changed.
Check your credit cards they have on file to make sure you're not getting massive AWS charges.
I feel like I should attempt to reach out to Werner Vogels, their CTO, who I respect greatly. I'm sure this is some data migration that went rogue, etc., but a simple mechanism of "remind me later" to a password reset would have fixed the issue. You must not twist the arms of a customer with 2FA enabled to change their password! Also, if the mobile app asks me to change my password, it would be inconvenient as I still prefer desktop browsers for this type of activity. Also, the app on my phone, which has been installed and activated for ages, is effectively another form of 2FA - why was I logged out from there, too?! In general, they are violating many of the modern-day best practices!
No, I did not receive any emails - just visiting amazon.com required me to reauthenticate and then required to change the password. The good thing about 1Password and other password managers is that you can't easily get tricked as the password prompt won't match the hostname and this will make you more suspicious.
Yes, you will see comments from friends on posts like these. Even if they have a million comments it will come into your feed with a friends replies visible.
That or the post is some variation of "tag someone that does X", or the one I've recently noticed "tag your favourite celebrity and see if they'll respond". Random pages I've no connection to are now popping into my feed because some page I follow responded to someone that tagged them under one of those. Completely pointless.
If they existed we would see the chips by now. They sell over $3 billion in hardware a year. I'm sure by now hundreds of individuals and companies have tried to find one and be the first with the teardown.
I suppose it depends on how targeted the attack was, right? What if the chips were only on a handful of boards, sent to only the major companies listed in the story?
I also find it hard to believe, I'm just trying to think of ways it could maybe be possible.
Don't buy any gadget online as it will be easy to be intercepted and replaced with the malware version. Live out of the grid as you can if you think these stalkers endangered your existence.
How ignorant of you to paint someone as paranoid when they question that state actors would want to spy on US businesses or interest when the precedent exists on several scales.
We put _so_ much trust to the government. Why you trust an entity that hide something from the public. We cannot let them have so much power, to dictate the public how to live, they are just another human being. They watch us with all the power we give to them, and then we loose control and let them behave as they like and we can't watch them in the end. They collect taxes but not competent to manage it and make people hard to living. Look, we are not cattles, we are human.
