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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by cm2187 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:38PM (#20568876)
Reminds me of a 1990s scam, can't remember if I saw that in a movie or if it did really happen. Some dodgy magazine advertisement for porn videos or something. Customers orders, write a check to a totally innocuous company name. Then the company claims they ran out of stock and issue a refund check, with a "porn xxx sexshop" company name, and of course no customer wants to present that check to their bank or having that name appearing on their bank statement.
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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by stupandaus on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:39PM (#20568890)
This is a line in "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" (Guy Ritchie film)! Was this a scam in the real world as well??
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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by cm2187 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:42PM (#20568915)
I think that's where I must have heard it then. Though I am sure it must be inspired from a real scam, like most books/scenarios.
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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by lilsoso on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:20AM (#20592126)
The scheme is found at an earlier date in a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. I believe it's in his book called "Steps" (1968), however I forget exactly which work it's in.

The scam seems to be well known. I presume it happened sometime.

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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by taxidump on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:31PM (#20571499)
Also included in the movie Snatch. Big black dildos were used...
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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by toomanybeersies on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:51PM (#20571058)
Funnily enough I was talking to the cashier at a sex shop the other day about what it shows up as on my bank statements. I personally don't care, but was curious.

Turns out it just shows up as the name of the shop, they don't bother to try and hide it these days. Pretty sure strip clubs still show up with innocuous names though, but it's been over half a decade since I've been inside one.

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