Energy Australia social engineering attack

In the middle of a power outage at the moment, so I called Energy Australia to see what was going on.

Me: Hi, I’m in Ryde and have no power.
EA: Sure we are having a problem in that area. What’s your address?
Me: 54 Blah St.
EA: Thats under the name of Ferlito?
Me: Yes.

So if you need to find out who lives somewhere really easily just call Energy Australia and claim your having a power outage. Probably won’t work every time but it will some of the time.

Oh yeah no power till this afternoon. Bummer!

This entry was written by johnf, posted on October 25, 2007 at 10:50 am, filed under General and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Lindsay Holmwood
    Posted October 25, 2007 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    just head over to Silvia’s until the power’s back. :-)

  2. johnf
    Posted October 25, 2007 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    I was at Silvia’s, that just made the story more complex :)

  3. Lindsay Holmwood
    Posted October 25, 2007 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    whoa! confusing

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