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by NOWHERE_ 943 days ago
There are people who register domains like polizei-dortmund.nrw, set up a reverse proxy to a real police site, and set up a email server. Then, they send an official looking mail to discord.com‘s support with some made up emergency, like the person behind account X is a suicidal, depressive teen and one of their online-only friends reported to us (the police) that he intents to end his life. Then, discord instantly gives us the IP and even address (if they had purchased nitro), and we got that person doxxed.

This is a service available on the obvious scene boards. It’s classic social engineering, and I bet it works for these car tracking services too.

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That's called impersonating an officer and is wholly illegal af. Those services whilst available are asking for a knock on the door from folks way nastier than your local cop shop. Rip. That's got state entity attraction written all over it.