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Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · last yr.

Right, so this is ol’boy’s real/regular email address, not a burner—he’s written Google Maps reviews with it three years ago. That means he’s used it for lots of other things too. Which means if Elizabeth wanted to track this guy down it would be piss easy 9/10 trolls SUCK at OSINT

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I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence

One time I posted a picture of my apartment complex's trash compactor and someone immediately messaged me telling me where I lived.

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · last yr.

I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence

I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image

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Same, i have a sophisticated and wealthy client who lost $500k in a fake real estate deal where there were five or six people on the other side of the transaction pretending to be real estate agents, lawyers, court clerks etc.- NOBODY is prepared to be personally targeted in that way.

oh, yeah--it's way easier to fall for a scam than people usually think

ngl my first reaction upon discovering our intern had fallen for a gift card scam in her first week (an impersonation attack based on details from linkedin, literally the kind of problem that @blockpartyapp.com is solving, an actual example we use in our marketing) was OMG how could you be so dumb

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exarch@exarch404.bsky.social · last yr.

It seems so far fetched, and yet, as she explains, it's just a series of small steps to slowly tug you off the path of normalcy and make you go along in the story the scammers are spinning for you. Just enough detail that makes you go "wow, if they know that, maybe it *is* real".

Being on LinkedIn is relatively unavoidable in my experience, but I don't list my current employer until/unless I'm looking for something new and that means I don't get the gift card scams because that's how they find you.

since then I've always said I provided real value by being foolish enough to fall for it, but wise enough to realize I'd been had. the middle path.

at my first job I fell for a fake fedex email targeted to a team@company distro list, started downloading an attachment that was [long hex string].js

Scammers have gotten really really effective, sadly. You might think it would be nearly impossible to just call a person and get them to pull thousands of dollars cash from the bank, learn how to use Bitcoin, and feed it bill by bill into an CryptoATM in a few hours, but it happens daily.

General rule of thumb is that cops don't call. They knock. It makes sense from their perspective. If they called, someone else could answer and pretend to be you. Or you could claim someone did that, after lying to them. That wouldn't work in person.

Had a similar experience a few years ago after I started a new job and the scammers pretended to be from HR. I didn't give them my info, but very nearly did. Would have been really embarrassing bc the job was claims handler for insurance for exactly this kind of scam.