Betting Ticket Forged Based on Selfie
This is an interesting story. Someone posts a photograph of herself holding a winning horse-race betting ticket, and someone else uses the data from the photograph to forge the ticket and claim the winnings.
I have been thinking a lot about how technology is messing with our intuitions about risk and security. This is a good example of that.
Alex • November 12, 2015 7:55 AM
It’s really clever. There have been similar scams during the Rugby World Cup, where tickets were going up to £715. Bottom line, don’t take pictures of things that can be forged…