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When trying to regain access to your Kraken account, you may be asked to jump on a video call with a support agent to prove you are actually who you say you are. Last month, the centralized exchange said it caught someone wearing a Halloween-style rubber mask attempting to fool the worker on the other side of the call—but it didn’t work. The attacker had raised a number of red flags during the first round of checks, such as failing to name the assets that the account held. These flags caused the agent working the case to require a video call to grant access to the account. During the call, the Kraken worker asked some more questions and checked the person’s ID. The attacker failed this stage—in dramatic fashion. “Our agent was like: This is absolutely ridiculous. This is a rubber mask the guy’s wearing,” Kraken Chief Security Officer Nick Percoco told Decrypt. The mask didn’t even look like the person the attacker was claiming to be, Percoco said. The victim was a Caucasian male in his early 50s, so it appeared to Percoco that the attacker simply grabbed a mask that vaguely fit the description. And this isn’t the first time someone has worn a disguise in an attempt to fool Kraken. “[We] see things, from time to time, where people put on a fake mustache,” he told Decrypt. “They show [ID] and it looks close because they wear the same style glasses, have a mustache, and have blonde hair. We see that from time to time. They never pass.”  “But this is the first time,” he added, “that someone has gone out to the costume store to get a mask.” To make matters worse, the attacker didn’t even have a believable ID. It was “clearly” Photoshopped and printed…

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Filed under: News - @ November 11, 2024 3:28 pm