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

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460 points wglb | 1 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source

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0xEF ◴[09 Aug 24 08:27 UTC] No.41199904[source]▶

>>41197300 (OP) #

I hate that it kicks off with "DISCLAIMER: This is not my work. I would never and don't condone illegal hacking of scammers"

You know what? I do. We all should. These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked. I am tired of toothless authorities like CISA and the alphabet agencies in the US doing next to nothing about it unless some YouTube scam baiter does the work for them. Scammers destroy people, not just financially, but emotionally as well, even driving some victims to suicide. As far as I am concerned, any wannabe hacker out there should be using these scammers for target practice.

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chii ◴[09 Aug 24 09:19 UTC] No.41200161[source]▶

>>41199904 #

vigilantism can spiral out of control. While it makes sense in this scenario, it's because the scammer is obviously breaking some law and is criminal. What happens if it wasn't so obvious?

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1. vouaobrasil ◴[09 Aug 24 11:47 UTC] No.41200923[source]▶

>>41200161 #

Then society would quickly condemn the vigilantes. Vigilantism works precisely in those cases where the criminals being persecuted is obvious. It seems to me that there is an optimal amount of vigilantism and it's greater than zero in those rare cases where there is a person skilled enough to carry out the retribution.

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