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>What's more after you find hackers you often can't do anything about them as they are in China, Iran, Russia or some other non-US friendly country. It's possi
by kgeist 5y ago
>What's more after you find hackers you often can't do anything about them as they are in China, Iran, Russia or some other non-US friendly country.
It's possible if US law enforcement bothers working with their counterparts in "unfriendly" countries (I doubt they even reach out to them).
Case in point: 10 years ago a bunch of Russian scammers scammed Americans out of thousands of dollars pretending to be a valid mail order bride business. As far as I remember, because US police did nothing ("it's Russia! we can't do anything"), one of the Americans had to contact Russian police directly. A criminal case was opened and Russian police eventually busted a whole network of scammers. I know because they were based in my city, there was TV coverage. Those scammers targeted only foreigners so our police wasn't even aware they existed, because no one filed anything.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoWhy didn't USA police contact Russian police? Why was that left to citizens to do. It may be problematic, but Russia are part of Interpol, so surely a record of the crime should have at least been made. Sounds like apathetic policing.