> …but in large population there will always be gullible/oblivious people.
Probably why they’re targeting students as it is quite common for them to never have a job before graduation college. On top of that if they have no friends or family who work in tech they won’t know what is standard practice or not.
It sounds like they baited them by paying off the existing balance of the card from the linked “corporate account” to gain their confidence then went in for the kill. Hustle season 1 episode 1 level stuff.
These TV shows are very educational about this, especially the Real Hustle, which was a documentary demonstrating how to avoid scams in real life situations. I'm sure you can find them on some streaming service as repeats.
Levandowski seems like one of those "Hustle" tv show characters who was able to collect money from everyone by using a sophisticated scheme and almost got away with it. Hope he will write a memoir one day called "if I did it" or something
It's done manually, when the iPlayer was new there was talk of this being done, that you can rent servers in every exchange. BBC are really relaxed about piracy (in comparison to others) so this might not be common.
Too hard to work out what should be cached. Should BBC send the latest episode of Eastenders, Hustle, Tudors etc to every ISP before it's up for download? (Yes) Should Youtube try to guess which of its popular videos will be in demand next week? (No) Should Steam send out its new games? (Yes) You have to pick services where there aren't too many options, the iPlayer and Steam together have less than 2k items, and have a fairly predictable future demand.
I am actually in awe of this guy right now [:D], man, this is some really exciting profession, thievery, its more like an art ! This story was better than any episode of Hustle !
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> …but in large population there will always be gullible/oblivious people.
Probably why they’re targeting students as it is quite common for them to never have a job before graduation college. On top of that if they have no friends or family who work in tech they won’t know what is standard practice or not.
It sounds like they baited them by paying off the existing balance of the card from the linked “corporate account” to gain their confidence then went in for the kill. Hustle season 1 episode 1 level stuff.
These TV shows are very educational about this, especially the Real Hustle, which was a documentary demonstrating how to avoid scams in real life situations. I'm sure you can find them on some streaming service as repeats.
The Real Hustle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791615/
Hustle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379632/
That sounds like something out of Hustle a TV show the BBC produced about a group of contract artists.
Levandowski seems like one of those "Hustle" tv show characters who was able to collect money from everyone by using a sophisticated scheme and almost got away with it. Hope he will write a memoir one day called "if I did it" or something
If you enjoy Leverage, Hustle might also be up your alley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379632/
That's where I got my fix after Leverages' somewhat premature demise.
It's done manually, when the iPlayer was new there was talk of this being done, that you can rent servers in every exchange. BBC are really relaxed about piracy (in comparison to others) so this might not be common.
Too hard to work out what should be cached. Should BBC send the latest episode of Eastenders, Hustle, Tudors etc to every ISP before it's up for download? (Yes) Should Youtube try to guess which of its popular videos will be in demand next week? (No) Should Steam send out its new games? (Yes) You have to pick services where there aren't too many options, the iPlayer and Steam together have less than 2k items, and have a fairly predictable future demand.
I am actually in awe of this guy right now [:D], man, this is some really exciting profession, thievery, its more like an art ! This story was better than any episode of Hustle !