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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: 0.363s | source
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0xEF ◴[09 Aug 24 08:27 UTC] No.41199904[source]▶
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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delfinom ◴[09 Aug 24 12:57 UTC] No.41201398[source]▶
As far as I can tell, these scammers were in China.

Nothing illegal until they sign an extradition treaty with the US.

Which they won't, lmao.

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1. seanhunter ◴[09 Aug 24 14:14 UTC] No.41202044[source]▶
An extradition treaty doesn't define what is and isn't legal, it defines under what circumstances a country who is party to the treaty will surrender someone who is currently sheltering in their territory to face prosecution in another country.[1]

So for example some GRU agents came to the UK and attempted to murder a couple of Russian expats using a nerve agent called Novichok[2]. As well as the original targets, three further people were poisoned and had to be hospitalised, one of whom died.

Unsurprisingly perhaps Russia won't extradite their millitary intelligence officers back to the UK to face justice. This doesn't change the fact that murder and attempted murder are definitely illegal in the UK.

[1] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-extradition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...