Do they? I mean, logging in is one thing, but transferring? I believe the hacked account owner can just get their funds back, and PayPal is very trigger happy at freezing accounts (especially new or idle) that get a large (a few hundred or more) sum at once.
So if you were to gain access to a stranger's account, you'd have to transfer the money to an existing, old and actively used account. Which is likely to be your own or your friend's.
Seems like a huge risk, so the hackers just sell the account to some idiot willing to try it.
I bought an expensive T-shirt a long time ago from a rather legit looking apparel company (nice website, LTD company/bank account).
Learned the right words on Reddit, hit up Instagram and started looking for and messaging people. Got a few replies, went with the one who had the most legit looking photos.
After a few questions on WhatsApp (yeah, really, lol) got directed to the website and bought the right item... via direct debit because their payment processor was "down".
Big risk on my part, I guess, my plan if popo called was to just say "hey I only ordered a t-shirt!"... I did not think it through very well.
Got it pretty fast (Royal Mail tracked and signed) and found a gift pack of "Revels" inside. How nice of them!
It seems rather risky for them, wouldn't it take just one guy to talk? Or maybe the seller was new to the business.
Tbf, setting up a company, bank account and shipping, all while staying anonymous is extremely easy (but not legal) in the UK compared to the rest of EU.
Joking appart, my question wasn't to learn about drug prices for "practical use". I just think it's an interesting subject: how the web changes underground/illegal markets, what impact it has, etc.
There are lots of counterintuitive things in that field (look at how Portugal handles it), which makes it even more interesting to me. "war on drugs vs war on drug users".
It is if deep down he knows the Internet has fucked him. Maybe he looks back and thinks about all of that colossal waste of time he wanted to use for something else. And then he gets into the games and on Reddit and forgets everything. It's exactly like heroin (not the Wonder Woman type), the cycles are just longer.
I've wanted something to completely, uncompromisingly block all Internet and software time wasters for a long time. I.e. quit cold turkey, once and for all.
Short of an UEFI-implemented solution (which itself would create problems like total control over your hardware), there's nothing out there that can't be bypassed. And no company is going to do that when the Internet addictions are bringing in billions.
Best way is to treat it at the core, of course, but that's not going to happen, either.
I don't know about the load boards themselves, (of which there are many), but there are a lot of companies in the logistics space. $62 million isn't that much.
Not saying whether they'll succeed, but saying deep pockets will do it doesn't make sense, IMHO.
The one I remember, though I can't for the life of me remember it's name, was operating around Benelux, mostly Belgium, France and Netherlands.
The truckers I knew mostly used it to find nearby matches for return trips (so they don't make a return trip empty). I don't know what happened to them.
I've seen a few names, but the ones I saw were essentially message boards - proceed at your own risk.
With Cargofone, every driver/company passes background checks, we insure everything automatically (via partnership with a large insurer), and we guarantee immediate payment. The aren't many that do all this.
Could you, I don't know, require a license on high power handheld lasers? I see imbeciles shining what looks like 100+ mW laser pens (very cheap, very easy to get) on people.
Now, I don't like laws banning stuff, but these handheld 150-2000 mW lasers can seriously damage someone's eyes. And I'm not going to risk blindness or poor eyesight for the rest of my life because some idiot thought it looked cool.
What's a legitimate use for them? It seems to me that they exist only because "high power, fuck yeah". 50mW is enough for pointing at stuff, and you need industrial lasers to cut something.
Shining them in the sky and at people is already illegal, technically, but this is a real case where preventing purchase would be better.
I used to own a bunch of 750 - 5000 mW portable (pen, and a plugin) lasers.
Historically, I've used them for stargazing (i.e. pointing out stars for other people to look at), burning / igniting things I don't want to get near (and where I'm too lazy to remote ignite), and engraving.
So if you were to gain access to a stranger's account, you'd have to transfer the money to an existing, old and actively used account. Which is likely to be your own or your friend's.
Seems like a huge risk, so the hackers just sell the account to some idiot willing to try it.