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Re:Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth P... by gojomo on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:22PM (#2829654)
Meth addicts seem to like identity-theft, so that correlation is not especially unique. See for example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11meth.html

(Identity theft is also the perfect precursor to evading what payment- and identity- checks do exist in an AirBnb-like system.)

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Re:Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth P... by _delirium on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:28PM (#2829668)
Interesting; thanks for the link. That's kind of a fascinating connection between drug chemistry, socioeconomic settings, and crime. Given that background, two meth-use-with-ID-theft incidents don't seem as weird to find in an AirBnB-like setting, which seems almost perfect for the kinds of people described in that article.
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