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The other episode that springs to mind is the hackers who managed to compromise the Twitter accounts of the likes of Obama and Elon Musk, but used it to promote
by notahacker 5y ago
The other episode that springs to mind is the hackers who managed to compromise the Twitter accounts of the likes of Obama and Elon Musk, but used it to promote a shitty Bitcoin gifting scam, which netted them an easily traced $100k and a prison sentence. Probably the scammers promoting the same sort of scheme in the comments with legal fake accounts make more money
- jazzyjackson 5y agoi’ve heard it said, “if criminals were any smarter they wouldn’t be criminals” - but of course its a selection bias because smart criminals don’t get caught, you only hear about the dumb ones
- mark-r 5y agoIf you work with police, you'll hear no end of dumb criminal stories. My favorite was the guy who coated his fingers with glue so he wouldn't leave fingerprints at the scene - then peeled off the glue and dropped the peelings in the trash on his way out. Leaving perfect fingerprints.