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The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get them. I wish them all a slow and painfully tortured death.

Until then, I do a whois on the sites and nmap their servers.

They tend to have a lot of open, unsecured ports.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Thank you for some ideas