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Italian national post lost lost 5M euro to phishing

• peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  as Italian, that's probably the less stupid things they've done, considering the kind of people they employ.
  • izietto 4y ago
    I'm Italian too and I'm not surprised at all
• MichaelZuo 4y ago
  This story brings up an interesting point, namely what's stopping hackers from simply diving their stolen proceeds among thousands of bank accounts, across hundreds of different banks? I could easily imagine it would take 10x more money to reclaim it then what was stolen in the first place after accounting for all the lawyer fees, employee time, etc...
  • prvit 4y ago
    > what's stopping hackers from […] Why would they want to?
    • MichaelZuo 4y ago
      To hide their illicit gains?
      • prvit 4y ago
        The hackers aren’t the ones running the receiving accounts, those are offered by finance professionals taking 20-60% and paying out in cryptocurrency. Making money “disappear” after a couple of international transfers isn’t particularly difficult.
  • rasz 4y ago
    money mule bank accounts arent exactly growing on trees