[PLUG-TALK] Spelling is worth millions.

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Mar 14 15:31:43 UTC 2016


On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> The electronic identity keys for the Central Bank of Bangladesh were 
> stolen by hackers. The group was merrily transferring millions of 
> dollars to themselves until ...
>
>  Hackers misspelled "foundation" in the NGO's name as "fandation",
>  prompting a routing bank, Deutsche Bank, to seek clarification from
>  the Bangladesh central bank, which stopped the transaction, one of
>  the officials said.
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-bangladesh-typo-insight-idUSKCN0WC0TC

So even if "life of crime" is what you tell your fifth-grade teacher 
about your life plans, you still need to work on your spelling.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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