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For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company
mikesd81 writes "Wired reports Nicholas Lakes and Viachelav Berkovich are charged with computer fraud [PDF] for a man-in-the-middle attack that allegedly let them run a profitable trucking company without the hassle of driving a truck. For over three years the Russian immigrants hacked a Department of Transportation website called Safersys.org, which maintains a list of licensed interstate trucking companies and brokers. They then went on forums where brokers advertise cargo in need of transportation and negotiate a deal, for example, to transport cargo from American Canyon, California, to Jessup, Maryland, for $3,500. But instead of transporting the load, they would outsource the job to another trucking company posing as the legitimate company whose identity they'd hijacked. They would then invoice the company and take the money. When the company that owned the actual truck tried to contact the company that needed the goods delivered, they found they knew nothing about it. Over all they made nearly $500,000."
Uhm...you're calling it a scam but it's actually just brokering loads. That's legal.
I bid on job X for $ then find someone else to do it for $-n.
I pocket n and pay $-n to the person doing the work.
Repeat.
Sub-contracting 101.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
Wow, uh, way to be proud of being a racist piece of shit. I hope you go out of business because stupid, ignorant fucks like you deserve it. You're so stupid you don't understand that if you weren't racist more people would sympathize with your real problem, which is illegal trucking (regardless of what race or sex the people are). Dumbass.