Another Day in the Global Economy

The following story is a good example of assess, position and implement.

These scammers assessed the global terrain until they were able to determine their competitive position within the entire configuration of the global terrain (from the bank to the various cyber offices). They positioned themselves by building a plan that focused on the prioritization of the various profit opportunities and the best timing points. These criminals implemented their plan through various cyber means. This enabled them to create illusions while concealing the reality.

In summary, this scam was very well-thought out and executed.

Interestingly, the crime reminded one of our associates of a 2008 crime movie named Chaos.

... Dekker finds from surveillance cameras in the assaulted bank that a director's computer had been used by the robbers. It turns out that they installed a virus to transfer one billion dollars to their accounts (less than 100 dollars from over 10 million accounts, so as not to rouse suspicions); this had not yet been noticed up till this point because one of the cameras (which are supposed to be focused at a fixed angle) is momentarily tilted down a little bit, which is visibly noticed during playback of the tapes. The author of the virus is identified as a programmer with criminal record, who is found dead at his home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(2006_film)