USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)
from downpunxx@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Aug 2024 14:34
https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/1064427

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

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masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 09 Aug 2024 18:49 next collapse

I get them. I wish them all a slow and painfully tortured death.

Until then, I do a whois on the sites and nmap their servers.

They tend to have a lot of open, unsecured ports.

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Twitches@lemm.ee on 10 Aug 2024 19:06 collapse

Thank you for some ideas

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 10 Aug 2024 22:42 collapse

I’m going to buy the rights to this story and then go back in time 2 years to sell it to Jason Stathem’ preferred movie studios. It will be this auction packed movie for Netflix where Jason plays a bee keeper who secretly defends the nation from those who dare messed with it at the root of power. It will be awesome!