{"id":179115,"date":"2018-05-12T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/12\/social-engineering-101\/"},"modified":"2018-05-12T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T01:36:00","slug":"social-engineering-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/12\/social-engineering-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Chicago had a novel way to make some money, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/05\/10\/610102872\/man-allegedly-used-change-of-address-form-to-move-ups-headquarters-to-his-apartm\">used a US Post office change of address form to redirect mail to UPS headquarters, and then he cashed the checks that came in the mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As federal crimes go, this one seems to have been ridiculously easy to pull off.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Dushaun Henderson-Spruce submitted a U.S. Postal Service change of address form on Oct. 26, 2017, according to court documents. He requested changing a corporation&#8217;s mailing address from an address in Atlanta to the address of his apartment on Chicago&#8217;s North Side.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The post office duly updated the address, and Henderson-Spruce allegedly began receiving the company&#8217;s mail \u2014 including checks. It went on for months. Prosecutors say he deposited some $58,000 in checks improperly forwarded to his address.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The corporation isn&#8217;t named in the court documents, but the Chicago Tribune reports that it&#8217;s the shipping company UPS.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to self:&nbsp; Check and see if there is a way to place a lock on my forwarding addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Chicago had a novel way to make some money, he used a US Post office change of address form to redirect mail to UPS headquarters, and then he cashed the checks that came in the mail: As federal crimes go, this one seems to have been ridiculously easy to pull off.Dushaun Henderson-Spruce &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,469,435,439],"class_list":["post-179115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-bureaucracy","tag-crimes","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}