Comments on: clever “car-identity theft” con uncovered in Israel

By: Eu neuwagen

Eu neuwagen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:54:13 +0000

Interesting variation on Identity Theft Fraud-by-Impersonation involving selling stolen cars.

Thank You

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:00:55 +0000

Thanks to those who responded to my question! Much appreciated.

Helen

By: Emergent Chaos

Emergent Chaos — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:30:33 +0000

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Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:27:45 +0000

[...] Saar Drimer details an interesting variation on Identity Theft Fraud-by-Impersonation involving selling stolen cars which I think illustrates nicely why this is really an Authentication problem. [...]

By: yitz

yitz — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:52:44 +0000

helen,
there are twenty two (22) letters in the hebrew language. (5 of them are written differently if they are at the end of a word, and 6 of them have 2 different ways of being pronounced depending on semi-complicated rules (tho if you mispronounce these people will generally still know what you are talking about, and in terms of reading the pronunciation is obviously irrelevant))

yitz..

By: Saar Drimer

Saar Drimer — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:01:27 +0000

Thanks Danny.
http://www.haaretz.com works just as well, but I couldn’t find an English version of this news in any of the English Israeli outlets (ynetnews.com, jpost.com, globes.co.il.)

Hellen,
Looking at Hebrew with a mirror will be just as confusing :)

By: Danny Weisman

Danny Weisman — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:09:04 +0000

Helen

The site is the hebrew language (Ivrit) edition of ‘Haaretz’ an Israeli newspaper. The english language version is available at http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
The language is character based with the letter names being the source of Greek letters and hence english… Aleph (Alpha), Bet (Beta), Gimmel (Gamma) etc. Interstingly there are no vowels in Hebrew

Rgds

Danny

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:52:54 +0000

What kind of havoc does this wreak for the owner of the car whose identity is stolen, I wonder?

Clicked on the link just to see what I could see. Is it a magazine or a newspaper? Is it even “paper”? It is interesting to look at. Interesting to see HP advertising. Are the characters letters or ideograms (if that’s the word)? If they are letters, how many are in the Hebrew alphabet? I know one reads from right to left – I had the irrational feeling I could read it if I just put it in front of a mirror.