Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by Jensson on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:35AM
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Now you are committing extremely serious crimes instead of just spamming though, few would risk that. So this might not solve all spam, but it would probably solve 99.9% of it.
> Do the people at Twitter know what a legit Madagascan ID looks like?
Yes, there are guides for checking ID cards, how do you think that they check ID cards in real life?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by sangnoir on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:56AM
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> Now you are committing extremely serious crimes instead of just spamming though, few would risk that.
Oh no, I've broken the ID forgery laws of Burkina Faso and am in big trouble now. Isn't it a rule of low-level scamming to always target jurisdictions away from your own? State-actors don't care about commiting crimes against themselves, only the mid-level, "semi-pro" threat actors care about avoiding major crimes.
Non-government actors can get in on the action by procuring IDs in other ways ("Make money by scanning your late maw-maws ID"[1]), or large scale phishing campaigns (fake jobs or college admissions abroad with 100% applicant success rate, the only catch is scanned IDs and qualifications are required).
Electronic forgeries are likely the best way to do it at scale; just the other day, therr was a top story ok faking as if your document was scanned. Do the fine people handling verifications at Twitter know what a legit Madagascan ID looks like?
1. Or "Get $10,000 funeral assistance from this new Biden admin relief program"