USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

Here are the original posts themselves, probably more interesting to people here:

https://blog.smithsecurity.biz/hacking-the-scammers

https://blog.smithsecurity.biz/systematic-destruction-hackin...

Appreciated thanks

Loved that, thanks for sharing! Very cool to see the step by step process.

Hilarious. Exposing an LFI to view things like /etc/passwd and server logs, and a SQL injection in a PHP stack... I prob wrote code like this, when I was a 15 year-old self-described "webmaster" in 2002.

Actually, I'm not that far off.

> The creator is a current computer science student in China who is using the skills he's learning to make a pretty penny on the side.

Probably because you’re obviously one of the myriad Americans that have bought in to terrorism now meaning “things that I don’t like”.

Because likely they are residing outside of US.

And this doesn't qualify for special forces. It's "just" some people losing some money.

It's much more than people "just losing some money", anyone who ever had anything stolen from them, or have been broken into can tell you that.

I'm speechless that they were able to reach that number of victims without consequences. Reeks of a lack of oversight, will, power or coordination on behalf of the investigators. I wonder which reasons they give.

Gifting a bit of existential fear to those scammers might not hurt, since they force it on thousands of others.

Scamming is partly intense psychological violence, and its financial and psychological consequences are far reaching, and here at an unfathomable scale - an entire city of people! In this sense they terrorize people. And they should likewise be relentlessly pursued and sentenced as a consequence. That city would go to war against them if they were one.

But yeah, i don't know, maybe we need a new word for such criminals. The superlative for murderers is "mass murderers". "Mass scammers?"

> You can never trust a scammer ever and even these scammers are getting scammed it seems

There’s no honor amongst thieves.

At $200/user/month he's making more than 99% of highschool students and computer science students

Ok, we've changed the link at the top from https://www.wired.com/story/usps-scam-text-smishing-triad/ to the first one of those two original posts. Thanks!

Readers may want to read all of them of course.

And for those wishing for an archive/paywall link to Wired: <https://archive.ph/jm2h1>.

Very informative! I tried doing something similar to these sites months ago after getting multiple text messages from them, but didn't really get anywhere. Very cool to see a professional walk through what they did!

What an inflammatory and ignorant comment.