[HN Gopher] A Different Type of Scam
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       A Different Type of Scam
        
       Author : rsav
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-11-03 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | That advance fee scam is old, just add bitcoin to it and you find
       | new suckas.
        
         | kleer001 wrote:
         | IMHO the real clever part is that they're scamming people
         | trying to scam others by using a poorly designed screen shot
         | app. So it's a kinda Dexter level serial killer killer level
         | scam.
         | 
         | More power to 'em.
        
           | PaulHoule wrote:
           | Scamming people by scamming them to think they are scamming
           | somebody else is the oldest trick in the book. It's the plot
           | of 'The Sting' and it keeps people from going to the police.
        
       | curtain wrote:
       | Cute.
        
       | spinny wrote:
       | looked into this some time ago after watching a video[1] about
       | Lightshot don't recall the addresses involved but the set of
       | domains was different, the interface looked similar to the
       | screenshots. This was a 6+ months ago at least, the video is
       | dated Mar 14, 2020. This is probably been going on for quite some
       | time
       | 
       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwKFY61-hq0
        
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