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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: 0.212s | 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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jsbisviewtiful ◴[09 Aug 24 13:27 UTC] No.41201617[source]▶
> These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked.

Some of them are being held prisoner and are being forced to run these scams under threat of torture. There was a Search Engine episode about this in the last year.

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bob_theslob646 ◴[11 Aug 24 10:50 UTC] No.41215304[source]▶
What are you trying to state? It sounds like you want empathy, but what about the victims? This is a dangerous argument.
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1. jsbisviewtiful ◴[11 Aug 24 19:13 UTC] No.41218612[source]▶
It’s not hard to empathize for both parties. It’s not a black and white situation, unless of course you don’t care about migrants being captured and tortured - which seems to be what you are implying.