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Any more blogs like this? I'd be happy to know more about such incidents.


something similar from the same blog about a malicious raspberry pi in a network closet and in the end the person who put it there was found out because their wifi credentials were still in the Pi

https://blog.haschek.at/2019/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-i...


Reminds me of the time I was found out for changing my colleague’s desktop wallpaper to My Little Pony, which is standard punishment for leaving your machine unlocked.

Disk not ejected properly

Eject "STEVE" before disconnecting or turning it off.


Not exactly this kind of scam but, there is the classic scambaiting community at 419eater.com

Wiki about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419eater.com

Also live scambaiting on Twitch from Kitboga:

https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

He is trying to waste the time of scammers while having fun and providing entertainment for his viewers.


I wrote a blog post about an Upwork contractor trying to scam me. I found her Facebook but never contacted her family:

https://mtlynch.io/upwork-scammer/




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