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Re:281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested in Global Sweep on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:56PM (#20947423)
> 167 arrests in Nigeria

No more Nigerian princes.

Yes, politicians never give up, they will try again.
Re:Ask HN: How to sell 'data science consultancy' service? on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:14PM (#20880960)
Sales Lead: A sales lead is a prospective consumer of a product or service, created when an individual or business shows interest and provides contact information.

You can buy b2b leads lists from specialized companies.

Re:Ask HN: How to sell 'data science consultancy' service? on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:50PM (#20856212)
B2B sales leads.
Re:Check Usernames – Social Media Username Search Engine on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:29PM (#20856122)
Many false negatives. For instance Blogger, Reddit, Flickr and LinkedIn will always return "Not Available" even if the user doesn't exist.
Re:Xkcd Forum Hacked on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:08PM (#20856023)
Yes it was being sold on rf:

562120 forums.xkcd.com_PHPBB&bcrypt_July_2019.txt

Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:14PM (#20855355)
They might be tracking your browsing habits. For instance if you hover over the like button and rest the cursor there for a moment but you subsequently don't like the post, it could mean that you thought of liking that post but you did not do it for whatever reason. Or they are just prefetching pages.
No More Ransom started out with three founding partners -- Dutch Police [...]

Ironical since the Netherlands is a major source of dirty hosting. Bulletproof hosts love that country.