ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
on 18 Jul 2024 08:05
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while you’re doing God’s work, to also remind people that the “bypass paywall clean” browser extension exists, and works on a lot of websites.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
on 18 Jul 2024 08:30
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Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works
delirious_owl@discuss.online
on 18 Jul 2024 16:07
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Loafs fine without js
ynazuma@lemmy.world
on 17 Jul 2024 17:47
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Failry old news. The Wired article is long and offers nothing but verbiose language and opinion.
The Skinny:
Barbossa is a Brazilian immigrant who along with another Brazilian and a group of 17 other people, used stolen identity data to create fake Uber and Door Dash driver accounts to defraud these companies. They would sell or rent these accounts to unqualified drivers. The scheme netted them about 791,000USD. Barbossa got 3 years in prison, three years probation, and a 20,000 dollar fine.
smackjack@lemmy.world
on 18 Jul 2024 07:39
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I wonder if she’s the reason why I received a 1099 tax form from Uber earlier this year, even though I’ve never driven for them.
delirious_owl@discuss.online
on 18 Jul 2024 16:05
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Is it really fraud to take money back from a fraudster?
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org
on 17 Jul 2024 18:37
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[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn’t secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]
Shame she didn’t get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.
explore_broaden@midwest.social
on 17 Jul 2024 19:32
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I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org
on 17 Jul 2024 19:48
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Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining!
Either I missed that or didn’t pick up on it.
delirious_owl@discuss.online
on 18 Jul 2024 16:08
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Outside, she placed several phones under her Porsche’s wheels and drove over them.
Thats like Hollywood-level dumb.
delirious_owl@discuss.online
on 18 Jul 2024 16:14
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As a teen, she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory…so she could play Counter-Strike
Is this even a tech journalist who wrote this story? Man, wired has gone down hill.
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Thanks for the paywall OP 🙄
12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wired.com/story/prisc…
Wayback Machine link too: web.archive.org/…/priscila-queen-of-the-rideshare…
while you’re doing God’s work, to also remind people that the “bypass paywall clean” browser extension exists, and works on a lot of websites.
Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works
Loafs fine without js
Failry old news. The Wired article is long and offers nothing but verbiose language and opinion.
The Skinny:
Barbossa is a Brazilian immigrant who along with another Brazilian and a group of 17 other people, used stolen identity data to create fake Uber and Door Dash driver accounts to defraud these companies. They would sell or rent these accounts to unqualified drivers. The scheme netted them about 791,000USD. Barbossa got 3 years in prison, three years probation, and a 20,000 dollar fine.
20k for 791k, about a 2.5% fee
Probably have to forfeit the money on top of the fine.
According to the article they did seize whatever they could.
Also, the 20k is her fine, they gained the 790k between 20 people.
Don’t know how they distributed it, but 790k for 20 people isn’t a lot of money.
Why do you need special qualifications to work for Door Dash lol
Usually, they fail the background check, don’t have a license, their car doesn’t meet requirements. Etc
Also people without a work permit.
I wonder if she’s the reason why I received a 1099 tax form from Uber earlier this year, even though I’ve never driven for them.
Is it really fraud to take money back from a fraudster?
[sarcasm] Wow, Whatsapp owned by Facebook (the privacy violators) isn’t secure? Colour me surprised [/sarcasm]
Shame she didn’t get away with it. Another case for abolishing borders and letting people work and stay places if they want/need to. Also for the US to stop having such an effect on other countries, directly or indirectly.
I don’t think there was anything in the article indicating the privacy of WhatsApp was actually breached, they got info by reading WhatsApp messages from other people in the chat who had already been arrested and from Apple.
Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining!
Either I missed that or didn’t pick up on it.
Thats like Hollywood-level dumb.
Is this even a tech journalist who wrote this story? Man, wired has gone down hill.