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Also, how does the seller disappear with that much money without being able to be IDed? That seems like a severe failure of the state. It almost makes me wonde
by anonporridge 5y ago
Also, how does the seller disappear with that much money without being able to be IDed? That seems like a severe failure of the state.
It almost makes me wonder if this is a semi common scam wealthy folks use to take poor people's desirable homes.
- sdenton4 5y agoPaid in bitcoin?
- anonporridge 5y agoBitcoin is pretty easy to trace. Could more easily disappear if paid in cash.
- sdenton4 5y agoSeems to work well enough for ransomware...
- anonporridge 5y agoActually, no it doesn't. For example, the FBI was able to partially recover the Colonial Pipeline ransom, although that seems to be in part because the perpetrators were stupid by trying to sell it on a US exchange, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware_attack#Partial_ransom_recovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware_a... Criminals don't use bitcoin anymore. They use cash and monero.
- koonsolo 5y agoBanks offer very little protection for scams like this. Basically "the money seems to be gone".
- anonporridge 5y agoI mean, it's probably hard for bankers to turn in their distant cousins.
- blitzar 5y agoIt was 150k, the word house in the title should be in quotation marks not the word stolen
- mrep 5y agoI'm guessing he had a fraudulent bank account opened in the owners name with the address as the house and then stole the bank mail as the bank mail would have apparently worked as verification as the original person for the sale according to this [0]. This story is scant though and needs more details. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074464