Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.

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    12 hours ago

    scammers don’t give a fuck and you can find them in any country in the world

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      3 hours ago

      To protect the autocracy. I am pretty sure Iran had good inteligence allowing them to find those scammers andeven execute them

      Under Iranian law, serious financial crimes that destabilize the economy are often prosecuted as “corruption on earth,” a capital offense that carries the death penalty

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, this is the right interpretation. Don’t think too deeply about the political motivation behind these scams, there isn’t one. The motivation is that these tankers and container ships are really really big, and they have proportionally sized wallets, and the scammers don’t want to miss the opportunity. The motivation is money and the opportunity is the legitimately confusing environment.

      As humans, we look for patterns in everything, we naturally look for greater meaning in events. And sometimes things are simple and have no greater meaning.

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        10 hours ago

        they could be just as well from cambodia for all we know

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          4 hours ago

          North Korea and Russia are leaders in such campaigns, typically.

          This is a consequence of sanctions. People gotta make income somehow.