• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I mean, weird culty citizens movement or not, most police and justice departments are incredibly hesitant to publish properly gathered crime statistics, for the reason that the vast majority of it is effective and goes without punishment.

    You should not commit credit card fraud. However, the abov is the first few stops of social engineering. Adjust a couple emails and phone numbers. Get a non government PO boxin the right zip code. Etc etc … and you could easily engineer their CRM to have all the right contact information you’ll need to to when they go to verify something.

    Humans are belief machines. We rely on how thing sound and feel, not if they are upheld by data or evidence. Managing those beliefs to get to specific outcomes is social engineering.

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      8 months ago

      Yep. Clearance rates are very low, the police actually do not do a good job at solving crimes. Their real value is in deterrent, but that only works when you have someone in a parked car outside a building.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        The police don’t even attempt to solve crimes unless a lot of money was stolen from important people, or someone was murdered. All those TV shows and movies of the police performing amazing detective work to get to the bottom of a crime are bullshit. The police file a report, drop the file in the trash, and go to lunch.