Who's Really Responsible In Online Banking Fraud?

TheRealStyro writes "According to this article a Miami businessman is suing a bank because of a fraudulent fund transfer possibly caused by the coreflood virus/trojan. He claims the bank is responsible because the bank failed to protect him from known online banking risks. It is obvious that this guy should have had an anti-virus package active, but shouldn't the bank have questioned such a large transfer to a republic of the former Soviet Union (these republics having gained the unfortunate notoriety of being dens of villainy and hackerdom)?"

Those damn monkeys!

[Rodrin]

I told you not to lock them in a room with computers. This is EXACTLY what I said would happen. *shrugs and walks off*

Looks like...

[jez9999]

... Slashdot is making a bold new move in its use of story formatting.

Thanks Ronald Reagan!

[Anonymous Coward]

dens of villainy and hackerdom

Yeaaaaahhhhhhh! Road trip!

dens of villainy and hackerdom

[Captain Splendid]

dens of villainy and hackerdom

ROFLMAO

PayPal

[chaffed]

Maybe paypal should be incharge.

Me: Hello paypal someone cracked your systems and stole my balance.

PayPal: Oh really? Tough Titties! *click*

Me: WTF Mate?

Re:Woah

[FLAGGR]

its part of a new ad revenue campaign. studies have shown that users are more apt to click ad's when they see bold text in the site.

here we go..

[chalkoutline]

I await the "In Soviet Russia, banks overdraft you!" comments.

Re:Thanks Ronald Reagan!

[zurtle]

From http://www.goyk.com/text.asp?id=54/ [goyk.com]
"My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
Ronald Reagan, about to go on the air for a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was already on

If only... then the poor sod would have all his money. It's a shame you Americans don't have a warmongering President! hehe.

Re:Man presenting card with name MRS...

[alexo]

> If you've got a name on the card of "Helga Olafson" and the person using
> it is a 6'9" African-American gentleman, you may want to ask a question or
> two about it.

Maybe it was a transgendered African-Scandinavian, (insert obligatory "you insensitive clod" here).

Clippy did it!

[goombah99]

No No. The monkeys were just banging away when up pops clippy and says

It looks like your trying to transfer your life savings to Latvia, would you like some help

And well then it was all over.

Which brings be to TCO.

As this person found out, TCO of windows is much higher than a Macintosh.

Re:Those damn monkeys!

[UserGoogol]

That doesn't even make sense. The monkeys have nothing to do with this. They were minding their own business trying to write Hamlet when this happened.