prodmerc
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
You don't even need the dark web these days haha
I bought an expensive T-shirt a long time ago from a rather legit looking apparel company (nice website, LTD company/bank account).
Learned the right words on Reddit, hit up Instagram and started looking for and messaging people. Got a few replies, went with the one who had the most legit looking photos.
After a few questions on WhatsApp (yeah, really, lol) got directed to the website and bought the right item... via direct debit because their payment processor was "down".
Big risk on my part, I guess, my plan if popo called was to just say "hey I only ordered a t-shirt!"... I did not think it through very well.
Got it pretty fast (Royal Mail tracked and signed) and found a gift pack of "Revels" inside. How nice of them!
It seems rather risky for them, wouldn't it take just one guy to talk? Or maybe the seller was new to the business.
Tbf, setting up a company, bank account and shipping, all while staying anonymous is extremely easy (but not legal) in the UK compared to the rest of EU.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm fucking tired of filtering everyone individually. 3 people from an ethnicity/nationality fuck me over - all of them are shit unless whitelisted.
Comment · 9 years ago
Well, add Cargofone to the list.
The one I remember, though I can't for the life of me remember it's name, was operating around Benelux, mostly Belgium, France and Netherlands.
The truckers I knew mostly used it to find nearby matches for return trips (so they don't make a return trip empty). I don't know what happened to them.
Comment · 9 years ago
It is if deep down he knows the Internet has fucked him. Maybe he looks back and thinks about all of that colossal waste of time he wanted to use for something else. And then he gets into the games and on Reddit and forgets everything. It's exactly like heroin (not the Wonder Woman type), the cycles are just longer.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've wanted something to completely, uncompromisingly block all Internet and software time wasters for a long time. I.e. quit cold turkey, once and for all.
Short of an UEFI-implemented solution (which itself would create problems like total control over your hardware), there's nothing out there that can't be bypassed. And no company is going to do that when the Internet addictions are bringing in billions.
Best way is to treat it at the core, of course, but that's not going to happen, either.
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't know why you think they want trains, but they're likely to move to self-driving trucks, just like Uber.
Comment · 9 years ago
Deep pockets.
Comment · 9 years ago
"We don’t think there are any other companies that have taken the same approach"
I distinctly remember a service/app with the same purpose in Europe in 2013.
There's Cargomatic and mentioned by mkoryak, OpenMile. And probably others. Money will definitely help here, though.
So if you were to gain access to a stranger's account, you'd have to transfer the money to an existing, old and actively used account. Which is likely to be your own or your friend's.
Seems like a huge risk, so the hackers just sell the account to some idiot willing to try it.