Re:An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Bri...
by denton-scratch on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:19PM
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> doing something innocuous. They transfer it to the scammers either via cryptocurrency
Whoah. Do you mean there are people that think cryptocurrency is "inoccuous"? I mean, I know there are inoccuous uses; but if someone "official" tells you to use a cryptocurrency account, that is very definitely occuous.
Re:An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Bri...
by denton-scratch on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:27PM
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Sorry for replying to self.
TIL: I have been spelling "innocuous" wrong since forever. It's apparently the negating prefix "in-", and the Latin word "nocere" (to harm).
So I should have quipped "that is very definitely nocuous". Or not quipped at all.
Unless the destination country, the destination Western Union office and the person who picked up the money are all willing and able to co-operate, law enforcement in the source country is pretty much stuck.