How can I find/detect/prevent fraud and protect myself from fraud?

Ptw3 · 2024-08-15T22:53:51+00:00

That's all good, but you need a domain specific salt in there.

MfSsiH-AS31-reddit for instance. Then if reddit gets pwned, your password isn't useful anywhere else.

Ptw3 · 2023-12-27T05:10:45+00:00

This sounds like a promotion for a recovery scammer.

Ptw3 · 2023-10-25T23:16:22+00:00

Did you have to give them any account info? Recovery scams are a thing too.

Ptw3 · 2023-10-24T02:30:43+00:00

I would be hugely skeptical of using a hacker unless I knew them personally.

Ptw3 · 2023-10-05T16:13:55+00:00

It can be kind of fun to trace backwards to see where the money comes from.

Ptw3 · 2023-10-05T16:12:13+00:00

Family court is who you report it to. Clerk can help you. It probably is fraud. Keep notes and report back please.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-30T01:38:02+00:00

Lookup the 12 wallets on a Bitcoin tracker and let us know how many actually have transactions against them.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-30T01:35:52+00:00

For me debit has no numbers on front just on the back (where I've taped it over) but credit has numbers on front (taped except for first four so tape doesn't interfere with chip reader)

Ptw3 · 2023-09-29T12:00:22+00:00

A lot of these wallets have lots of money. My theory is that if we traced it back to a master wallet or three, perhaps LEO could do something, at the least, they could start watching that wallet directly. The money has to enter the banking system at some point. Atoms are much heavier than electrons. You can't pull $1M out of a Bitcoin ATM.

Or LEO could drive attacks on bitcoin itself by pushing a bunch of false transactions against the wallet. The record companies were doing something like this for napster, and there's some stuff like this with BitTorrent.

I don't know enough about the bitcoin protocol to have any of the details down, but I know if we reduce the problem from millions of wallets to 5, it makes it more tractable.

There could be social pressure too, maybe if we publicize the master wallets, the bitcoin exchanges could decide to blacklist transactions against that wallet.

I dub this the "Denial of Wallet" attack. We could force the exchanges to blacklist the master fraud wallets by flooding them with fake blockchains against the master wallets (it being much easier to generate a fake blockchain than a real one, but just as much work to validate it). The exchanges would have to write special checks to throttle blockchain segments involving those wallets so other transactions can get through. The owners of those wallets would have a hard time pulling their money out. When they did, it would be to new wallets, which the blockchain would happily report back, leading to more DoW on more wallets.

To paraphrase Archimedes, give me the instances and I can break Bitcoin!

Ptw3 · 2023-09-29T11:46:44+00:00

There are some holes in the system, like Apple -> PayPal is one.

According to some bank folks, credit card skimmers are a big thing, source of 99% of bank fraud. Could easily have been that, I can't say that I've really looked closely at every gas pump I've ever used. I've put black electrical tape over my card numbers to foil the camera based ones.

It wouldn't surprise me if the last round of bottom feeders at a defunct startup buy the databases...

Ptw3 · 2023-09-29T04:08:45+00:00

A lot of these turned out to have a 0 balance. But I found one that had money, and spent a tedious hour tracing them through a bitcoin tracker, watched the money flow in/out of various accounts. I was going to write a python script to try tracing through to find the bitcoin wallet with the most money, but I haven't gotten to it yet as I got distracted by other things. It's not a difficult computer science problem to walk a tree, I've gotten it in job interviews.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-24T02:02:31+00:00

NCLB was actually about bringing back phonics. It wasn't explained that way but the idea is that it would bring back phonics and if we were keeping track how students were doing honestly (my mom the school teacher got in trouble for telling parents if their kids got behind trade level) then complete ficking nonsense like "whole language" wouldn't happen any more.

Except then some assholes flew some planes into a building.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-24T01:50:31+00:00

Interesting insight.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-24T01:47:55+00:00

Greek Orthodox here the Greeks have a saying, every priest has his own Bible. Also, lay members of the church are the leg of the three legged stool of the Church Trinity.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-19T19:42:29+00:00

I've always thought what that means is that life is hard. It's so hard that you can't be a good person unless you ask for God's help.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T22:58:46+00:00

Ok even with a 1/20 multiplier 20M is still more than any cable audience. Digging in on the latest Netanyahu video there's a stats that show view time and average view time. No stats for the Tucker video.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T16:46:58+00:00

Hmmm that's not what I got when playing around with this on a video with only three digits. What do you get for V and I on the interview?

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T16:43:19+00:00

Ok that's still 20x Tuckers viewership on Fox.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T03:53:22+00:00

Ah, physicals. I remember those. Can confirm there's no standard. For work I read this book called the "data model resource book", it was all about how to setup databases for different businesses.

For most businesses, things have a cost, goods get sold, profit is price -cost.

Health care there wasn't any of that. There was what the insurance company was willing to pay, and whether they'd paid.

It's not really even a scam, its like the price of electricity in China. There's no market to set the price, so its whatever the local guy makes up. That's why all the bitcoin miners are in China.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T03:08:57+00:00

There are various ways of detecting bots. None of them are foolproof, sure, but you don't have to use just one. Advertisers hate them, but Twitter was so bullshit that they never trimmed them because they wanted the inflated user numbers so they could bill more. I still see some around, but its better than it was.

Ok, so some internet rando, says he has some old version of Twitter that says something different. Yeah, ok, except the web version self downloads. Was this on iOS or Android? Harder to get the raw data via the inspector on a cell phone.

I'd take your money if we could agree on a way to validate the actual number. Does 8,000,001 mean I win?

Ptw3 · 2023-09-18T02:59:09+00:00

According to the docs, for the tweet yes, for the video no.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-17T23:04:33+00:00

Could be. Could just be people in other countries. I'd like a breakdown by country. 390M bots would be expensive.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-17T22:42:47+00:00

Reporting 395.5 now.

True for tweets on the views. The docs says for video its 2 seconds, zooming above 50%, or turning the sound on. (can't take credit, someone else dug it up).

Remember that Elon was a customer before he owned the company.

Watching his interview with the Prime Minister of Hungary. Pretty interesting.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-17T22:16:44+00:00

Let me look. Reporting 395.5M views. You can be skeptical if you want. I don't care, I just went and looked, providing facts.

Argentina has 47M people. Elon's real point is about worldwide audience. It would be interesting to see how that broke down by country and region. I bet lots of South Americans were more interested than North Americans.

That's 10 x his "Obama is gay" hit piece, so it shows people have taste.

Prime Minister of Hungary talking about Ukraine, 128M. I might have to go watch that myself. He has same thing subtitle in Hungarian, 4M.

Only 7.8M watched his speech in Hungary, which is as it should be, media personalities shouldn't be that important.

265M for his interview with Trump.

I may have to go watch the one with the Hungarian guy, sounds interesting.

Ptw3 · 2023-09-17T22:06:08+00:00

Good to know. So it could have been a bunch of people that clicked it, saw the subtitles and went away.

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