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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by dreen on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:53AM (#23712589)
Some people are exceedingly good at working out ways around the law to make a lot money. Here is how I think their story works in many cases (I have no formal expertise):

I expect these days in developed countries most of them start with credit card fraud in their teens and usually go to prison. At that point they either reform (I know of two such individuals by name, one is a friend sysadmin/CTO now and the other is Stephen Fry) or they get recruited in prison into an existing criminal org. From then on they acquire knowledge on how to crime from people who have the experience.

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by elliekelly on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:30AM (#23712871)
This is an interesting aspect of the criminal system I don’t often see discussed - for a lot of kids who are dabbling in crime and get caught sending them to prison is how their criminal network grows. It doesn’t help “reform” the edge cases so much as it allows the edge cases to be easily recruited by existing criminal operations.
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