Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/24/scammer-greatly-regrets-sendin.html
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Now multiply that by say millions a day, and we may have a solution, maybe…
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There has to be some solution here. Who has the technical ability to replicate this at a larger scale? ISPs? FBI?
You’d think there could be a way of identifying scammers, imprisoning them, recovering assets and splitting the difference between this fictional entity and local governments in India.
I leave out paying back people who are scammed as I doubt there would ever be enough cake to split 3 ways. But getting a slice of the action could incentivize local govs to more actively pursue these criminals.
pipe dreaming
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My kind’a dreaming.
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Reminds me of:
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Wow that was really cool! Very satisfying. Esp the part where he reversed the charge on that paypal charge! Nice. Almost, in fact, to nice. To capture the scammers connection is pretty advanced, isn’t it? Does anybody know this guy, like from defcon or something?
I mean, it would be clever to just produce this and then ask for donations at the end, right? I don’t know maybe this is completely legit, but anything this satisfying makes me wonder.
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My money would be on the NSA. You don’t tap 20-odd percent of global communication in real time without locating some telemarketers and boiler room scammers.
Unfortunately, we seem to have wasted the fruits of our sinister surveillance dragnet on assassinating Al-Qaeda middle management and general Total Information Awareness power-tripping; rather than tangible quality-of-life improvements like killing spammers.
A tragic wasted opportunity, really .
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