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> Interestingly, at least one poster acknowledged that she had in fact downloaded the music in question, suggesting that the scammers had collected real file-sh
by daeken 14y ago
> Interestingly, at least one poster acknowledged that she had in fact downloaded the music in question, suggesting that the scammers had collected real file-sharing data and connected it to peoples' real names and physical addresses. It's unclear how they managed to obtain the information.
I'm going to take a stab here and say that they picked a popular piece of music and sent out letters about those. A decent portion of the population will have downloaded this stuff, just by coincidence.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoScrap "Call me maybe" comments in YouTube; filter only the people in the USA and convert every username into a hotmail and gmail address (e.g. username@gmail.com) and send them treating emails. Profit.
- gizmo686 14y agoThey might have looked at which IPs were downloading certain torrents. If they are a branch of a large enough entity, they might have access to tracking data to help associate IP addresses with real addresses (at lease a significant amount of the time)
- OGinparadise 14y agoReminds me of those "you have downloaded p-rn, buy xyz product to erase all your tracks otherwise your..." ads. How did they know :) ?