One of the problems with prosecuting cybercriminals is that building cases and investigations takes time, often years. In the meanwhile, the bad guys are ransoming this and extorting that and really harming a lot of people.
But what if we went after all the sim-swappers and other assholes in The Com by taking a page from the prosecution of Al Capone? I'm talking about just filing notices of unreported income with the IRS on all of these guys? I think the IRS even still has a bounty program for this kind of thing.
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@briankrebs isn't the problem that we don't actually know who the operators are, physically? And, most of the time, they are probably hard to get at, ensconced inside Russia or North Korea?
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@briankrebs unfortunately as someone who has already thought of similar years ago on a smaller scale and read the claim form
They want to know your relation to the person and how you collected […]
@briankrebs True, but the IRS is desperately understaffed. Intentionally. Think we have more immediate problems to be concerned with as all the grifters & con artists & crooks come looking for […]
@briankrebs I would love to see it happen, but my impression is that one has to provide some sort of real evidence of income in the form of documents and receipts. One can't just point out that […]
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