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These numbers are usually not premium in the 1-900 sense of the word. It's more like they are international numbers and there are various intermediaries who work with mobile/landline operators in a bunch of countries to set up th
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Depends what you mean by "premium rate." Every number costs money to call in Twilio. Some numbers cost more, in lots of these frauds numbers in ordinary ranges are used (Is a rural number in Chile that costs $0.20/minute to
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Twilio and their users are the victim here... Twilio having KYC would not solve the problem, they do not the own the numbers the expensive texts are being sent to. Twilio should just enable their anti fraud systems by default (by the way t
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Identify Users via Keystroke Patterns(keytrac.net)
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You're implying the EU is this privacy guardian fighting these evil American tech companies. Except it was the EU who mandated data retention laws, the EU who banned prepaid cards over 150 euros, the EU who mandated countries release
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Except politicians will have to come out as supporting a ban on the most popular apps that tens of millions people use every day. Which outside of HN circles would probably be unpopular (see how the proposed Tiktok ban was received in Amer
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America requires dual criminality for extradition. America has no privacy law similar to GDPR so that couldn't happen + I think GDPR violations are a civil thing only (?).
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> The challenge is that most BEC attacks will use bank accounts outside the US. In truth, the IC3 RAT recovered less than 14% of the total US$2.4 billion in BEC losses last year. https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/0
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It may come as a surprise you to that the recovery rate for BEC incidents that are not immediately detected is very low and that victims often spend years suing their banks for faulty fraud protection in court for either only a partial sett
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Bookmarked. These recommendations are actually pretty good.
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The government (FBI, HSI, DEA, Treasury) wants to do all of this but can't because of the great constitutional liberties we have in this country. So they decided to outsource all this enforcement to financial institutions ( https:&#x2
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Not sure why your post was downvoted. There is a difference between asking customers voluntarily on your ecommerce site to say pass an AVS check or have an IP address in the same country that their card is from (in my view reasonable) and
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For most yes but there is a big use case outside of most. Digital goods/software especially is rampant with friendly fraud, virtual cards with fake balances for trial abuse, etc. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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I don't know what to tell you other than the fact that "lawful intercept" only became lawful in the 1970s and that the laws/modern law enforcement techniques you think are saving us from anarchy are relatively new. In t
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What you are describing is already done by carriers in countries with high sim box usage. (Basically, it costs ~$0.01/min to make a local call in Nigeria but $0.25/min to make an international call to Nigeria so people there set
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Visit https://immunefi.com if this interests you. You can set up testing environments with software like hardhat and simulate what would happen if a series of transactions were executed. To earn a bounty on immunefi (at least
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Commodities fraud isn't even considered "specified unlawful activity" so they can't stack on money laundering either. Given Avraham's resources this will probably spend a few years in appeals court.
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MAP is minimum advertised price. For instance in the old days lots of Herman Miller distributors sold online for a lot lower than what Herman Miller wanted them to so Herman Miller banned them from distributing their products. In the con
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Strict enforcement of MSRP is bad for consumers so I’m not sure why you’d celebrate that.
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eBay already collects most of this information for tax purposes as I’m sure you are aware. This will do literally nothing, fake scans and photoshop cost nothing. Something like Onfido probably would raise account creation costs a big amou
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See https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt . There is a debate to be had over every spam mitigation technique. For instance banning VOIP numbers would prevent most 2fa codes from being delivered and has a high false posit
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I highly recommend reading https://commsrisk.com (no affiliation) if this stuff interests you. Robocalls are up month over month even with STIR/SHAKEN ( https://robocallindex.com/history/time ). Essent
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Jho Low until 2013.
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The PDFs especially the first are more instructive in this regard.
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Here are some high profile examples: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.44... (granted) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.45... (denied) https:&#x2F
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People with 8 and 9 figure bail don't go to the bondsman on the corner. They usually have their own armed guards from companies like Guidepost Solutions enforce their home detention and it is usually secured by bank accounts or real e
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It is true that white collar prosecutions have declined but this is part of a long running trend ( https://www.vox.com/2015/8/5/9099935/federal-white-collar-cr... , https://trac.syr.edu/tra
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Check your address :) https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6904c9316b35139cb66bec73f51c33504f...
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Add an ETH address somewhere and I'll send $50. I don't use this service because I don't watch television but it looks like it would be useful for people who do. Also couldn't you just scrape https://www.tvg
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I like the way you think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32841022

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