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Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by walrus01 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:20AM (#23218291)
I bet the person physically receiving the wine/goods is some gullible, naive person who has been social engineered into thinking they're working for a legit business.

It's like the 419 emails where they are trying to "recruit a remote working employee in our finance department" where your job is actually to receive fraudulent ACH wire transfers and send the money to some overseas destinations, go to a bitcoin ATM and buy bitcoin to send to the scammer, etc.

If the scammers are reasonably intelligent and have put a degree of thought into how to not get caught doing this, they'll introduce multiple layers of abstraction between the physical delivery of $450 bottles of liquor, and the point at which that booze is turned into (gift cards, bitcoin, ethereum, etc) and ultimately in their hands. They're probably calculating on taking at least a 20-35% haircut on the revenue before the somewhat-cleaned-up cryptocurrency or gift cards makes it to them.

Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by inquiryaccount on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:29AM (#23218349)
From what I can gather, it is a ring of people behind this operation likely getting a commission for each 'drop' back at base

https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...

Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by billme on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:25AM (#23222004)
Appears likely that someone that has access to the hotel’s customer CC data might be behind this and the local police are aware of it too...

“Not only is this hotel horrible, our guests had their credit card stolen and $500 worth of purchases made on it!!! Reporting this place to the police. Do not even go near this hotel. Total crooks, denied everything when confronted but they were caught red handed” [1]

...makes you wonder what is really going on.

[1] https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...

Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by jldugger on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:10AM (#23218588)
So money laundering
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by ficklepickle on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:23AM (#23219343)
Clearly the hotel business is a thin cover. One reviewer mentions dust as though the room hadn't been used recently.

The reviews are incredible.

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...

Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by Apocryphon on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:28AM (#23219375)
So that's where the Bowery King is in hiding.
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by jml7c5 on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:56AM (#23220413)
Told the police about it? Someone would be eager to chase that case.
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by empath75 on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:17AM (#23221373)
Cops aren’t ever eager to take on cases.
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by inquiryaccount on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:12AM (#23221866)
Yeah, they aren't interested in pursuing this. Phish on.
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by billme on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:28AM (#23222031)
Appears local law enforcement already knows about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222004

Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by MattGaiser on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:21AM (#23218298)
Or, it is the age of social distancing. Just order it to a random address and steal it off the porch/lobby area.
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by inquiryaccount on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:27AM (#23218343)
Majority of the liquor ordered using a phished account goes here – so sketchy: https://www.google.com/maps/place/101+bowery+st/@40.7176021,...
Re:Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage by mraudiobook_com on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:30AM (#23220633)
How do you know that?