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Given the scale, I would suspect a ring of professional criminals more than people with low credit scores from "bad neighborhoods". This is Hacker News, after

Given the scale, I would suspect a ring of professional criminals more than people with low credit scores from "bad neighborhoods". This is Hacker News, after all. This is a system and someone hacked it. "In several cases, hackers with lists of email addresses and passwords have written scripts to locate car-sharing accounts using those credentials. Once they find the accounts, they sign out cars and disable their GPS trackers, causing them effectively to disappear." This does not sound like it's related to businesses going to certain neighborhoods due to demographics. It sounds like smart thieves took advantage of your biases and drove to certain neighborhoods in order to get you to suspect an Other of their crimes. That's sure what I would do

mieseratte 7y ago
Or organized crime already in that community.
pergadad 7y ago
Sound like this was certainly an organised group and had strong local presence. But could as well be a daring youth club rather than organised crime.
- humanrebar 7y ago
  How is a club of people stealing cars not "organized crime"?
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    It technically is "organized crime", and I'd guess legally it would be too, but it's not what people usually associate with the phrase.
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lultimouomo 7y ago
The article makes it quite clear that this was not a planned operations where 75 cars were stolen, GPS disabled, and shipped abroad or stripped for parts. People were just refusing to give back cars, parking them inside private garages, using immobilizers, and stuff like that. FTA: > There was little indication that the people who took the cars had more than joyriding in mind. According to police reports, all the pilfered cars had functioning GPS trackers and license plates that started with the letters AX, and many still had visible Car2Go stickers on them, so officers patrolling the area had little trouble spotting them. On a single day they arrested almost two dozen joyriders.
- close04 7y ago
  But later on it goes on to say: > She adds that the other types of fraud have been rare at Car2Go and that its GPS trackers can’t be physically disabled. Other than physically disabling or jamming the GPS what other ways of disabling it are accessible to the potential thief? And what makes Car2Go's GPS impossible to disable physically when we're talking about people with the willingness and ability to steal and strip down a car?

mieseratte 7y ago

Or organized crime already in that community.

pergadad 7y ago

Sound like this was certainly an organised group and had strong local presence. But could as well be a daring youth club rather than organised crime.

humanrebar 7y ago
How is a club of people stealing cars not "organized crime"?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  It technically is "organized crime", and I'd guess legally it would be too, but it's not what people usually associate with the phrase.

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lultimouomo 7y ago

The article makes it quite clear that this was not a planned operations where 75 cars were stolen, GPS disabled, and shipped abroad or stripped for parts. People were just refusing to give back cars, parking them inside private garages, using immobilizers, and stuff like that. FTA: > There was little indication that the people who took the cars had more than joyriding in mind. According to police reports, all the pilfered cars had functioning GPS trackers and license plates that started with the letters AX, and many still had visible Car2Go stickers on them, so officers patrolling the area had little trouble spotting them. On a single day they arrested almost two dozen joyriders.

close04 7y ago
But later on it goes on to say: > She adds that the other types of fraud have been rare at Car2Go and that its GPS trackers can’t be physically disabled. Other than physically disabling or jamming the GPS what other ways of disabling it are accessible to the potential thief? And what makes Car2Go's GPS impossible to disable physically when we're talking about people with the willingness and ability to steal and strip down a car?