1972: How to commit COMPUTER FRAUD - 70s style | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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The crime of the future will be computer crime. A few weeks ago, Guy Parker stole a considerable sum of money from a company, without arising any suspicion from its employees. Guy Parker is not a criminal, he is a computer security expert - and he is going to show Tomorrow's World precisely how he stole £34,563.28 using nothing but a smart suit, a pen and the inherently trusting nature of computers.
Originally broadcast, 28 March, 1972.
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@davidpanton3192 2 года назад

Anybody who could get all those steps right deserved the money.

@ricksanchez3628 2 года назад

Right lol

@davedogge2280 2 года назад

you've got a point, I worked in a Merchant Bank in London in the late 90s and there was a guy who worked in payments who tried to do a fraud paying money into his bank account, he made a mistake though, it was spotted and the police were called. I dunno the details as this happened a month or so before I joined.

@ricksanchez3628 2 года назад

@@davedogge2280 magnetic ink

@davedogge2280 2 года назад

@@ricksanchez3628 possibly I dunno this must have been 1998. But he was a fool, where was he going to go with the money, I dunno how much he tried to deposit but even if it was more than £250K back then even the receiving bank would have quizzed it and where was he going to go to spend it ?!?

@straightpipediesel 2 года назад

£35k in 1972 = £513k today. That's 20 years of an median British salary, and 5 years of a nice one. So if he spends a month or two on the steps, and has to do them over, he's still way ahead.

@danielf1313 2 года назад

The attempts of anyone following this blueprint nowadays would be foiled immediately by the absence of cigarette machines in corporate offices. 😂

@kishascape Год назад

It’s still actually doable though. I remember people doing something similar back in 2010, ATMs apparently still used old school computer connections like from the time of this video and remained unencrypted so people would position a small wiretap somewhere down the line it used with a small microcomputer like the new raspberry pi at the time and have it communicate with the ATM so you could use a blank card to make it spit out all its money.

@edwardcheves9106 Год назад

Absence of cigarette machines in general. Haven't seen one in decades!

@Keithbarber Год назад

@@edwardcheves9106 or smoking in general is less prevalent

@precumming Год назад

@@edwardcheves9106 Buying cigarettes requires proof of age which means doing it over the counter

@lumemaa7 Год назад

😂😂

@scottishwildcat 2 года назад

I know the paperless office is still a bit of a myth, but you forget just how *much* paper there used to be.

@handsoffmycactus2958 Год назад

A bit of a myth? No it’s a huge myth and isn’t true in the slightest

@stepheningermany Год назад

Amazing how detailed this explanation is... almost like they wanted people to try it.

@UXXV 2 года назад

From 1972 here to the film Sneakers in 1992 to present day social engineering, fishing emails and ransomware ... a 50 year journey

@daffyduk77 Год назад

re: social engineering - a certain amount of psychology went into that scam model

@walkingtheboogie 2 года назад

Fascinating and it ends with an encouragement for us to litter our streets. 🤣 In all seriousness though it really was fascinating.

@saxongreen78 Год назад

True...but it was a redundant encouragement: almost everyone did it anyway! (Urban pollution was appalling here in Aussie back then - smog, litter, dogshit and putrid, dead waterways full of car bodies and old cots.)

@DCI-Frank-Burnside 2 года назад

When hacking into a computer was a literal phrase.

@tsmith7146 2 года назад

James Burke is brilliant. His unique voice is such a vivid memory from my childhood. The voice of the Apollo missions on the BBC.

@handsoffmycactus2958 2 года назад

How was he? All he’s bleating on about is criminals using “he” and “him” as if women never committed crimes. Really weird guy

@kiteracer95 2 года назад

@@handsoffmycactus2958 back to Twitter with you

@RobCCTV 2 года назад

James Burke spoke with a clear voice of authority on many subjects. He and Raymond Baxter truly represented a very positive future to me, as I watched EVERY episode of Tomorrow's World.

@traceya9615 Год назад

Yes, he was very clear and interesting to watch. Excellent.

@zordorfe Год назад

@@handsoffmycactus2958 bro is pressed about THAT??

@soup_pigeon 2 года назад

bbc archive is one of my fave channels at the moment

@MrSimonmcc 2 года назад

Ditto.

@southlondon86 2 года назад

4:26 the reflection on the right - the director waves the actor to come in 😂

@theculturedthug6609 2 года назад

😂

@coloradostrong 2 года назад

Good find.

@dronespace 2 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Год назад

Good spot! Obvious, once you'd pointed it out. We definitely need you in office security.

@morebasheder 2 года назад

It'll be fine, that Hillman Avenger will breakdown within 50 yards, enabling him to be caught 🤣

@mikemartin2957 Год назад

Now if he drove a Viva or an Escort they probably wouldn't start!

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 Год назад

I owned a Hillman Avenger and can vouch for that.

@morebasheder Год назад

@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 haha yeah my dad had one that did that 🤣

@mattdavies7398 2 месяца назад

BL Marina, 25 yards

@danellis-jones1591 Год назад

Was there a time where a complete stranger could just stroll around an office without being asked who they were?

@ajs41 Год назад

Of course. There are still some places where you can today.

@user-un9go4qe5i 8 месяцев назад

@@ajs41 Can you name a few of them, please. With addresses...

@ajs41 8 месяцев назад

@@user-un9go4qe5i In places like Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc, in small businesses in rural areas. They don't have the same obsession with security that big countries like the USA and UK have.

@hoofie2002 4 месяца назад

In many places a high vis and a clipboard is all you need. We had someone walk around unchallenged round an office and factory by walking in the main door. It was a test by security but all hell broke loose afterwards.

@jonathang8263 2 года назад

So all I have to do, is get past building security, get past the receptionist in the specific office, find the printout showing the suppliers that company does business with (including and especially the ones they haven't done business with in ages), find all the company paperwork, create a bogus company with a bank account, wander round the office unquestioned and unobserved, change some account details, insert my bogus invoice for my bogus company with a real bank account, forge some signatures, enter it all into the company computer system, wander round a bit more totally unobserved, leave and wait to get paid and get away with it with nobody any the wiser? It sounds like a piece of piss and I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.

@BBCArchive 2 года назад

Yup! Easy money.

@luntaw Год назад

🤣

@danyoutube7491 Год назад

I think the trickiest part is part 9- if I've understood correctly, you need to know how much is going to be paid to you, but I don't see how someone from outside the company (the thief) would know that.

@ajs41 Год назад

Most offices didn't have any security until relatively recently.

@Rust_in_Time 2 года назад

The irony that the 1970s cyber criminal mastermind drives a Hillman Avenger....

@politesociety 2 года назад

Someone gotta avenge the Hill man.

@davidtexmex1616 2 года назад

The main message; littering is cool.

@DannyBPlays Год назад

When I go overboard trying to protect something, I usually end up saying to myself "if they figure this out, they deserve the xyz that I'm trying to hide/protect". This video is one of those times

@jdm65 2 года назад

This is awesome - great to see James Burke. And those 70s fashions were special....

@kishascape Год назад

I like those computers. Looks like a system built around the IBM 1401

@roaarylion5214 Год назад

They were terrible

@MattTweeks 2 года назад

"Yes hello mam I'm from Amazon tech support, you have a hackers on your PC"

@jasonayres 2 года назад

That's funny. I'm a Nigerian prince, with a UK email address (- you won't ask why-), and I need to get a lot of money out of the country. Could you send me your bank details?

@migue897 Год назад

70s: "Computer will trust anybody" Today's computers: "Even though I look at you and you look like you, how do I know even you're you?"

@marcse7en Месяц назад

Today's computers, WON'T recognise my finger print, WON'T recognise my face, and WON'T accept my password! Yes, security has DEFINITELY improved in 52 years! 👍🤣

@thomasm1964 2 года назад

Midland Bank! Now that really IS a blast from the past!

@traceya9615 Год назад

Oh yes, the so-called "listening bank"! 😆

@Keithbarber Год назад

@@traceya9615 I banked with them 1989-90 The listening bank? I always said they needed a hearing aid.....

@traceya9615 Год назад

@@Keithbarber 😂 I quite understand! I was stuck with their Northern Irish version, "The Northern Bank" in the early 80s as a student and the manager in particular was a nightmare. My friend used to do a great impression of him saying, "I'll have to take your cheque book away!!" 💩 to deal with!

@politesociety 2 года назад

I sure am in the mood for an overly elaborate heist right now.

@alexandertroy9621 2 года назад

I'm in!

@Rust_in_Time 2 года назад

These days you don't even need to go into the building....you just sit in your lurid, atmospherically darkened bedroom hunched over a laptop with a palid, carbuncular complexion!

@DrumToTheBassWoop 2 года назад

6:15 as soon as someone asks for a packet of cigarettes in an office, that's your clue.

@CricketEngland 2 года назад

Security was extremely lacking back in the 70’s I worked in the finance department for a large company in the 80’s processing expense claim payments and has access to set up employees on the system, so could have quite easily set up a bogus account added expenses to that account (under the company check limit) and paid myself a nice amount each week (originally by cheques back then and later via BACS transfer). I didn’t of course as I liked the job and was very good at it but it was possible, until I mentioned it to management and changes were put in place about setting up accounts.

@smadaf 2 года назад

I should hope your reason for being honest was not that you liked the job but that you liked honesty, liked yourself, liked fair play, and understood that the best one to uphold your values was you.

@alexandertroy9621 2 года назад

What a stooge. I bet you would have liked your beach house in Costa Rica a whole lot more than that job!

@eduardoarmenta9232 Год назад

@@alexandertroy9621 Better to have a job you like than risk going to jail. If he figured that out, others could too. A common mistake for criminals is to think they outsmarted the system and everyone in it. There's always a flaw in every plan, so to get away with it you'll need plenty of luck.

@kishascape Год назад

Still is today

@DavidPaulMorgan Год назад

I always thought a good time to do this would be at a time of transition - eg Local Government reorgs. set up a company a few months or years before and get on the suppliers list and do some business. During the confusion during transition, that's the time to do the invoicing type frauds.

@littlemisssunshiney7 Год назад

Thank you I will be trying this the next time I am in the 1970s

@ricksanchez3628 2 года назад

I got caught at the stationary cupboard

@dissonantdreams 2 года назад

Well, if the smartest man in the universe can’t get this right, there’s no hope for the rest of us 😂

@depniff 2 года назад

Most cupboards are stationary. Even the stationery ones don't move a lot. Sorry...

@ricksanchez3628 2 года назад

@@dissonantdreams I was waxing a Claborkean

@southwestshelly Год назад

don't make it easy to get past the receptionist - well GP surgeries have really taken that one to heart.

@exiles_dot_tv 2 года назад

Just casually littering at the end

@Seminal_Ideas Год назад

I can just imagine him pulling this off and then trying to start his lamentable Hillman Avenger only for it to conk out.

@royalbloodedledgend 2 года назад

This is cutting edge stuff! Very informative

@vincen4943 2 года назад

The legend James Burke,BBC’s Mr Apollo Moon Missions!🚀

@DavidPaulMorgan Год назад

just love James Burke articles & programmes. Always interesting.

@video99couk 2 года назад

I like his taste in cars. But then I drive a 1972 Hillman Avenger myself.

@Ken.- Год назад

I like how the onus of the entire company's financial security is placed on a receptionist.

@tharoog Год назад

3:13 the girls aren't paid to ask questions

@Richard-dt4ft 2 года назад

The lady at 2:46 in the background knows something is up 🧐

@bombski5657 Год назад

Shame he didn't get a fixed penalty notice for littering at the end, that would've been the definition of irony.

@maigretus1 9 месяцев назад

No, irony would have been if the "thief" showed up after he left, picked up the pieces of the check and pulled out a roll of Scotch Tape. 😦

@brianartillery 2 года назад

The most worrying thing nowadays is that a lot of workplaces had cigarette vending machines.

@endlessnameless6628 3 месяца назад

Got to love the 70's 'I need cigarettes, do you have any?' 'Of course! What kind of daycare do you think we're running here?'

@drbop6951 2 года назад

Lol. Hi, my name is Guy Parker. Don't mind me and my six man film crew wondering around your building...

@Vedrajrm Год назад

“Paper is worthless until it’s written on, protect it” wow, that one’s a thinker

@fcrick6967 Год назад

"Paper's worthless until it's written on; protect it!" 🤣 ...he left the torn cheque on the ground 🤣 ah, simple times

@GeVeBeGaming 2 года назад

I tried this recently and failed hard, It seems the TV crew following me got noticed.....Bahhhh

@rogersmith8339 Год назад

Where I worked a few years after this, the computer was the size of my current house!

@theaylesburycyclist8756 2 года назад

When littering was socially acceptable. Ah, the good old 70s.

@tasercs Год назад

Where I work, nobody is busy so even if Guy made it through reception, swipe card access, metal detector, X-ray machine and other physical restrictions, he would be spotted and 'taken down' by a vigilant member of staff with plenty of time on their hands. Obviously, nowadays Guy would just pretend he was from Nigeria and ask 20,000 unsuspecting random people via SMS, for their bank account details and sort code so that he can transfer the money they had luckily won - all from the comfort of his own home.

@solidstate0 Год назад

A 419 Guy. Do you think he'd still be driving an Avenger?

@ajs41 Год назад

Why is nobody busy where you work?

@plumjet0930 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the tutorial

@JosiahGould 2 года назад

2022 - Convince people to invest in digital pictures.

@MilkShake 2 года назад

Full bundle crime jazz footage 👌

@ewaf88 Год назад

However there was an enemy of punched cards, the rain. especially if you'd forgotten your umbrella.

@Monkey80llx 2 года назад

It was the 28p that rang alarm bells! 😆

@chickencrackling 2 года назад

Just tried this. Didn’t work.

@user-un9go4qe5i 8 месяцев назад

2:45 she's suspicious already...

@simonpark843 Год назад

The Stationary Cupboard, eh? This is brilliant stuff.

@Ken.- Год назад

nice cut at the end. You know James kept the money.

@ReformRuss 2 года назад

Tutt Tutt, Keep Britain Tidy would have had a letter from Mary Whitehouse after this episode

@maigretus1 9 месяцев назад

Aaaaand at 8:30 he commits another security no-no: He tears up the check and just tosses it. As Danny DeVito's Penguin said, "A little tape and a lot of patience, makes all the difference." Writing "Void" across the front and back is better. Or burning it.

@DCI-Frank-Burnside 2 года назад

Is there anywhere I can pick up a pack of tabs, love? I'm here to pull of a complicated invoice scam, and me nerves are chattering like mad. Just in the canteen, over there.

@pipmcg1 2 года назад

Hahahaha!

@Dextrovix-42 2 года назад

Whereas the biggest crime nowadays would be the litter thrown at the end...

@hoofie2002 2 года назад

James Burke - fantastic

@PS-Straya_M8 Год назад

LoL anyone who could move around seamlessly without anyone noticing deserves the money!

@ajs41 Год назад

This was how life was in the 1970s. You could walk around an office in a big company and people wouldn't notice you as long as you looked fairly ordinary.

@marcse7en Месяц назад

Today's computers, WON'T recognise my finger print, WON'T recognise my face, and WON'T accept my password! Yes, security has DEFINITELY improved in 52 years! 👍🤣

@misspurrr-fect3684 Год назад

Now all completely achievable via a gaming chair in Nigeria .

@CianODonnell 2 года назад

Haha the original invoice redirect fraud thats still going on today.

@ianofliverpool7701 Год назад

I don't believe for one minute that somebody would get away with all that.

@MD-fu6ly Год назад

They did.

@ajs41 Год назад

I do. The whole idea of security in offices didn't become a thing until the late 80s / early 90s.

@omercan71 Год назад

in the 70s we all threw our waste out the car window

@yakacm Год назад

On a trip to London last year, I saw James Burke walking thru Selfridges, obviously he was wearing a mac.

@79narz Год назад

Never in a million years was he “undercover “ 😂 cameras followed him everywhere!

@Minalkra Год назад

They said it was a recreation of the events.

@asd36f Год назад

Wow betide if you dropped all of those punch cards on the floor LOL

@Alex58399 Год назад

£360,000 in today’s money

@ringosmusic2598 Год назад

What’s the song in the beginning

@JustMyFish Год назад

He should’ve been fined for littering at the end 🤣

@dangerman8625 Год назад

I like the way, he made litter with the cheque, he should have put the paper in the correct place, IE, a bin.!.

@808music3 Год назад

Finally,he almost forgot he had to tore the check up. Way a go sunshine.😂

@esssexboy 2 года назад

The very next day he traded his Hillman Avenger in for a Jaguar E -type

@dtvfan24 2 года назад

So awesome. Even in 21sr C, laptops lefr around on trains etc. Encrypt encrypt encrypt and use 2FA keys

@joebenge3920 Год назад

Anyone else notice the edit as he tears the cheque up at the end?

@cz2301 Год назад

Reporter: gets a fine for littering in the end of the video

@conorspence5332 Год назад

He just assumed there would be cigarettes for sale at the canteen 😂

@jagmarc 3 месяца назад

A few weeks after this the Metropolitan Police mopped up 100s of criminals they had been watching, who tried this out

@mattdavies7398 2 месяца назад

"Stage 63...."

@robertgolding 2 года назад

Littering - seventies style

@geofferzh79 2 года назад

Was that 1970s drum & bass ?

@jeffreyhunt1727 Год назад

The specific items of technology are old, but the techniques used today are all the same: Deception, confidence, trust. Humans are the weakest link in any security system.

@milmex317th Год назад

Litterbug

@silvernoob1603 2 месяца назад

being able to buy cigarettes at work, wow what a time to be alive

@richardmorris4842 Год назад

It’s incredible to think those Nigerian Princes are doing this kind of process all the time.

@chuckufarlie8215 2 года назад

Anyone know the song at the beginning? I figure it might be incidental music from some library, commissioned by the program by a small act or studio players but if that's an actual commercially released single I'd really like to know. Sounds truly heavy.

@mikeparrysatwat 2 года назад

Bloody hell James Burke is still alive 85 years old.....from the time the BBC was worth watching

@scottishwildcat 2 года назад

There was an excellent documentary on the BBC tonight about the new James Webb telescope, shame you missed it because you didn't think it was worth watching.

@jasonedwards6870 Год назад

This is an RD Wingfield plotline I feel sure 😵

@pmzmdf Год назад

I hope the presenter got a littering fine at the end.

@SciFiAssasin 2 года назад

Pick up your litter!

@brendandelaney255 Год назад

I'm really curious! Would this film help companies avoid computer fraud, or just show more people how to do it

@ajs41 Год назад

Most big companies probably put more security in place as a result of this report.

@saxongreen78 2 года назад

Stephen Fry was already an old hand at this by 1972!

@theculturedthug6609 2 года назад

How do you mean?

@saxongreen78 2 года назад

@@theculturedthug6609 He got busted for financial embezzlement when he was 13yo.

@MagikGimp Год назад

The (very) old social engineering switcheroo.

@mjowsey Год назад

see where trusting ppl will get you!!

@yolosdeathdave Год назад

*The Computer Trusts Everybody*

@JasmineSurrealVideos Год назад

I don't think there were enough steps in this do it by numbers crime clip, or enough references to paper.

@demianschultz3749 Год назад

It all ends up with littering

@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 Год назад

Step 1.) Be a Nigerian prince.

@twitchygiraffe4636 2 года назад

That could’ve been anyone’s hands and any cheque being torn up at the end!! For all we know that presenter probably cashed it and had a good spend up at Harrods!!!!