Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pennsylvania drivers

Re:Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pe... by nkurz on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:01PM (#11378162)

Here's a slightly earlier article about this: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/03/25/speeding-ticket-sca...

Nothing in either story explains why the victims would be geographically clustered in Pennsylvania. But if the scam was prevalent elsewhere, I'd think we'd be hearing more people saying "I got one too!".

I wonder if there's some other angle than a shared smartphone app explains the locality better: a disgruntled neighbor with a radar gun, or something. The obvious problem with any local theory, though, is that it would have to explain discovery of the email addresses.

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Re:Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pe... by nsgoetz on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:05PM (#11378185)

I like how that article refers to the cops as "very sporting" for not enforcing these fake tickets.

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Re:Malware scam appears to use GPS data to catch speeding Pe... by saasyguy on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @08:47AM (#11381015)

A local business or gov't entity got breached, possibly an insider, and due to living there now or in the past has local knowledge of popular roads that 80% of their targets would be familiar with. Or if they didn't live there it'd be pretty easy to use public records to see where traffic tickets are given out most, where traffic cams are installed, etc.

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