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

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460 points wglb | 2 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Scoundreller ◴[09 Aug 24 04:21 UTC] No.41198741[source]▶
> Michael Martel, a national public information officer at USPIS, says the information provided by Smith is being used as part of an ongoing USPIS investigation and that the agency cannot comment on specific details.

Oh, they 100% can. There's a US Constitution thing allowing them to comment on things. They just chose not to comment because they don't want to.

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delfinom ◴[09 Aug 24 13:03 UTC] No.41201444[source]▶
Not sure why they are bothering. The US can't touch some scammers operating out of China.
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bluGill ◴[09 Aug 24 13:39 UTC] No.41201716[source]▶
If it is China the US probably can touch them - China is afraid of a trade war and so once presented evidence of who is at fault China will stop it. (so long as evidence doesn't exist China might know and perhaps even encourage it, but once evidence exists they will stop this). It is probably but not a sure thing.

If they are in Russia or North Korea there is nothing the US can do (other than CIA or military operations) and so the scammers will get away with it.

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1. ianhawes ◴[09 Aug 24 14:59 UTC] No.41202503[source]▶
China will not extradite Chinese Nationals (the US has the same policy). China will not prosecute their own citizens for crimes committed outside their borders (unlike the US).
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2. aragonite ◴[09 Aug 24 19:26 UTC] No.41204665[source]▶
> China will not prosecute their own citizens for crimes committed outside their borders

Not true (not as a matter of principle). There was a high profile case in which murder suspects who fled from Japan back to China were caught & executed.[1]

[1] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%8F%E5%86%88%E7%81%AD%E9...