Feb 9 2009Invading The Real World!: Fake Parking Tickets Used To Spread Computer Viruses
Hackers operating around Grand Forks, North Dakota (not to be confused with Giant Spoons, South Dakota) have been issuing fake parking tickets in order to get their victims to download viruses from a website.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".
The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a fake anti-virus scanner.
Listen folks, if you don't want to fall victim to this sort of scam, you need to do what I do: not be a senior citizen.
Parking ticket leads to a virus [bbcnews]
Thanks to Bungo, who doesn't pay parking tickets because they're just a sorry attempt by the man to keep him down.
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Reader Comments
1. poodles - February 9, 2009 11:16 AM
FIRST
2. MadeOfWin - February 9, 2009 11:20 AM
Not first, but cooler than the guy who was in every way.
And anyone who actually downloads the virus completely deserves it for plain stupidity.
The phrase "you fail" fits in very well here.
3. ko0pa - February 9, 2009 11:22 AM
that shits weak
4. JED - February 9, 2009 11:23 AM
THIRD!!! THIRD!?!?!?!?!? OH GOD AM I THIRD!?!? ILL NEVER BE FIRST!!! ITS SO IMPORTANT!!! MY LIFE!!!!! Put a bullet in me.
5. JED again - February 9, 2009 11:24 AM
lol i heart ko0pa
6. FADM.Notbob - February 9, 2009 11:26 AM
@2 I totally agree.
Anyone who is dumb enough to believe this, deserves the consequences.
Also, Im laughing, because i live in the UK.
7. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 9, 2009 11:31 AM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
You mean to tell me computer geeks went OUTSIDE to spread mayhem? I call FAKE! We all know those pasty skinned fappers don't leave mom's basement.
8. poodles - February 9, 2009 11:31 AM
MadeofWin is all wrong, I am Ice cold
9. Daisy - February 9, 2009 11:56 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max tried to jump a mopded on a home made ramp, that broke when he hit it. He smashed his nuts into the bar.
10. todders - February 9, 2009 11:59 AM
Well, that's just ass-backwards. Planting computer viruses in the REAL WORLD? Is it the Matrix already?
check out this hilarious video of Larry Flint's PORNO BAILOUT (watch out for the dude in the mustache):
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/150
11. naas - February 9, 2009 12:09 PM
Well I don't want a vundo trojan OR to be a senior citizen so I'm just not going to park anymore, I'll just keep driving...
@10 What about the hilarious wall-mart video?
12. Al Dracone - February 9, 2009 12:51 PM
@4 "THIRD!!! THIRD!?!?!?!?!? OH GOD AM I THIRD!?!? ILL NEVER BE FIRST!!! ITS SO IMPORTANT!!! MY LIFE!!!!! Put a bullet in me."
OK!
13. Al Dracone - February 9, 2009 1:00 PM
Oh boy! I've always hated hackers, and this might just be my big break. All I have to do is park my car in North Dakota and wait in the bushes with my daddy's shotgun! Now all I have to do is convince the police to give me back my license... I think they'll do it, after all, it's for a nobble cause!
14. Ollie Williams - February 9, 2009 1:02 PM
I'm always down for a "nobble cause".
15. Pew³ - February 9, 2009 1:42 PM
send in the SPY FALCON!
16. daguz - February 9, 2009 3:48 PM
How in the world do I make a profit from someone installing a virus on their computer?
Any amount of money gain by this is beyond belief... I just want to know how and where to go? Could get my dad and all his AARP buddies to do this and start raking in the .02 cents.
17. Watch - February 9, 2009 5:42 PM
find the motherfcuker who prints these tickets and break their fingers.