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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: 0s | source
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chocolatkey ◴[09 Aug 24 04:17 UTC] No.41198724[source]▶
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...

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Bissness[dead post] ◴[09 Aug 24 09:20 UTC] No.41200164[source]▶
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playingalong ◴[09 Aug 24 11:00 UTC] No.41200618[source]▶
Because likely they are residing outside of US.

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

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1. Bissness ◴[09 Aug 24 13:39 UTC] No.41201718[source]▶
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.