Sentence examples for pose as legitimate from inspiring English sources

Messing with DNSSEC could create loopholes for hackers by allowing rogue websites to pose as legitimate ones.

Such ploys are known as "phishing," in which fraud artists pose as legitimate companies to try to get you to reveal important personal information, like account numbers, passwords or even your Social Security number.

Through a smartphone app, the OnStar service allows keyless access by renters and can foil potential thieves who may pose as legitimate renters through a feature intended to slow or stop the vehicle.

According to the indictments, the eight defendants paid people to pose as legitimate real estate buyers, then prepared false appraisals that valued the properties at tens of thousands of dollars more than they were worth.

Armed with false shipping papers, they pose as legitimate truckers, driving off with loads of nuts such as almonds, walnuts, or pistachios valued at $150,000, and some worth $500,000 each.

Essentially, the dirtboxes pose as legitimate network operators, providing signal to devices which, it is claimed, can allow them to prize registration and identification information from a 'target'target

People posing as legitimate auction participants, both as buyers and as sellers, however, have been setting up fake escrow services and insisting the opposite party use the service.

Last year, the BBC documented a much less sensational story: how more than 100 Ugandan women wound up in Iraq in the first place, attracted to the war zone by unscrupulous human traffickers posing as legitimate businessmen.

In a second incident detailed yesterday, prosecutors said that many unwitting small investors were swindled by "boiler room" operators who would call them posing as legitimate brokers and offering sure-fire investments in the foreign-exchange market.

ChoicePoint, which sells information about consumers to employers, marketers and others, said in 2005 that criminals posing as legitimate businesses had gained access to consumer data, including Social Security numbers and credit histories.

With many Android malware apps posing as legitimate games and apps, Android's market domination (and the hands-off approval process of the Google Play app store) means plenty of potential victims.