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Hedge funds do a ton of crazy research like this. I remember reading about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after. They were only inter
by est31 7y ago
Hedge funds do a ton of crazy research like this. I remember reading about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after. They were only interested in their serial numbers which they used to estimate the count of sold cars of a specific model using the german tanks method. Before the sales numbers are out, information like this is very valuable.
- gist 7y ago> about hedge funds buying new cars only to sell them immediately after To get this data you wouldn't need to buy the cars. So it sounds like they did something that sounded like that as opposed to what you remember. Even w/o social engineering you could quite easily get some dealer to give you that type of information (or someone working there or otherwise).
- sokoloff 7y agoYou could walk the lot and look at the corner of the windshields...
- sokoloff 7y agoWe sell customized products. A little over a decade ago, we noticed a few orders going out that were not at all customized or were customized in a way that suggested the customer wouldn't be happy when they got them. We tracked down the account (based in NYC) and they'd been ordering products about every 45 days (mid quarter and end of quarter) and they'd never complained nor asked for a refund. Seems they were after the shipping identifier, as when we changed the shipping identifier to not leak shipment volume information, the orders soon stopped.