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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Sometimes they transfer to a cryptocurrency exchange, sometimes they go to a branch to withdraw everything. Banks don't really like either of those, so issuing checks and cashing them somewhere else is a common scheme. Some may bounce
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Lots of telcos are doing exactly this, doesn't really work very well. The spammers just switch to more generic messages you can't realistically filter out.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
> You're correct that some of the scams yield hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like I said, I knew someone to whom that happened. However, most scammers look for smaller payouts in quantity. Think of ransomware that make it look li
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
PaybackTony literally said "It's the biggest problem in the US because because of pricing." and went on to explain how calling in EU is much more expensive. I think it's safe to assume that he just didn't think this
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
>Please watch your tone and choice of words. That sentence is more focused on defaming the OP than addressing the merit of what they said. It's not defaming the OP. I did address the merit of what they said. > If it takes 2,000 c
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
>Also, fuck gift cards. Make them illegal Most of the losses (in $ terms) from these scams do not involve gift cards. They involve the scammers convincing you to install some remote desktop software and emptying your bank account. It&#x2
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Yeah, and this is almost the bottom of the food chain, the only people below crimemarket are those too dumb to use internet forums. Anyone can easily buy European bank accounts opened with fake IDs, or money laundering services where you&#x
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
> If we can make it harder to run a scam call business by changing things on our end How much harder? If your changes increase the telephony costs of a scam call centre from 0.001% of revenue to 0.002%, you have not actually made their o
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
> Plenty of such cases here locally. I'd be super curious to hear about any local success stories. >As for forcing Indian authorities: I've seen up close how corrupt things are there and I have very little hope that that wou
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Have you seen how elaborate schemes small players on sites like crimemarket.is engage in for their scams?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Can you give a single example of similar fraud being successfully tackled? Not just the scammers being caught, but the entire scam being rendered unprofitable. European authorities haven't managed to do anything about the car selling s
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
And what do you propose would be such a reasonable rate limit? >However, even if we assume that SIM boxes are a magic solution to carrier interventions, that still raises the cost from the current status-quo. Implement enough of these ba
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
No, the SIM boxes live in the US.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
> Note that in some countries these scams are far more prevalent than in others, they'll go for the low hanging fruit first just like any other business The reason for this is language barriers, it's not some countries doing th
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
How would this affect the profits?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Using SIM boxes is already standard practice, sketchy VOIP providers and SMS spammers have been doing for years because it is cheaper to do this than to pay for legitimate routing. Just put something along the lines of "sim box grey ro
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
No they can't. The scammers will just hire a random person from indeed/monster/whatever, ship them a SIM box and tell them to fill it with prepaids.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
> It's not taking place this year: https://events.ccc.de/category/37c3/#no-congress-2022-en What's this hygiene stuff they're talking about? Did they get in trouble with the venues over attendees
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Why would they not be against subjecting their citizens to such a mass surveillance system?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
I think central London is actually a pretty great place to drive if you can afford it. Westminster council doesn't tow, so you never have to look for a parking spot. Unlike some other European cities, the odds of being harassed by poli
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Why not just write "raidforums"? (But no, that forum has been down for 8 months)
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
>This is a seller that had “100% perfect” transactions. Won't save them, eBay will close their account after a couple of disputes like yours.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Except if your car is registered in one of the wrong countries, then you might spend hours getting controlled on Schengen internal borders . Of course, if your car isn't registered in an Eastern European country you probably won&#x2
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
This seems like an example of a scam not working on eBay.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
The executive branch essentially works for the congress, what's the issue here?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
If your goal is to transmit something to a device within the same room , sure.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
This is the first one that's actually a bad look for Twitter, the rest were a lot of noise over nothing.
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
The thing about this kind of vague insinuations is that they're impossible to refute, but not necessarily impossible to show examples of. Do you have any?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
Do you have evidence of this being a thing, or is this just a baseless conspiracy theory?
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by bbbbb5 4y ago
The Congress is obviously a completely different entity than the FBI. If the Congress wants to force companies work with the FBI, they have the absolute power to do so.

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