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Actually it was a trap of sorts, I know because they tried that scam here in MA. The scam was, it is illegal to sell drugs without a tax ID, you can't get a tax ID without bringing the product(drugs) to the tax ID place(city hall or something). That you don't have the tax ID yet, you are then possesing an illegal substance and therefore go to jail. It's a which came first, the chicken or the egg type of arguement. If you don't have the drugs, you don't get the ID, if you have the drugs to get the ID, but don't actually have the ID, then you go to jail. I don't know how many people actually fell for it, I don't think many have.
That's not exactly true. The government and law enforcement have to prove you guilty, but the ISP can just drop you if they want. I worked for an ISP and one of our customers was trying to break into whitehouse.gov(no this was 3 years ago) and I had to speak to the FBI a few times. All my employer(the ISP) would let me say to them is "with out a subpena(sp?) we can't tell you anything about the user". Which might seem like a possitive thing, but if someone spammed from one of our IPs, we'd see who was on at that time and kill the account. We didn't have to call the police, lawyers, the customers parents, just cut the account. The TOS for most if not all ISPs are that they can cancel your account at any time for almost any reason. Back then on a dialup ISP who cares if you lose your account, the problem now is the monopoly in cable modem service. If they cut you, you can't just go to the next provider.
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Actually it was a trap of sorts, I know because they tried that scam here in MA. The scam was, it is illegal to sell drugs without a tax ID, you can't get a tax ID without bringing the product(drugs) to the tax ID place(city hall or something). That you don't have the tax ID yet, you are then possesing an illegal substance and therefore go to jail. It's a which came first, the chicken or the egg type of arguement. If you don't have the drugs, you don't get the ID, if you have the drugs to get the ID, but don't actually have the ID, then you go to jail. I don't know how many people actually fell for it, I don't think many have.
That's not exactly true. The government and law enforcement have to prove you guilty, but the ISP can just drop you if they want. I worked for an ISP and one of our customers was trying to break into whitehouse.gov(no this was 3 years ago) and I had to speak to the FBI a few times. All my employer(the ISP) would let me say to them is "with out a subpena(sp?) we can't tell you anything about the user". Which might seem like a possitive thing, but if someone spammed from one of our IPs, we'd see who was on at that time and kill the account. We didn't have to call the police, lawyers, the customers parents, just cut the account. The TOS for most if not all ISPs are that they can cancel your account at any time for almost any reason. Back then on a dialup ISP who cares if you lose your account, the problem now is the monopoly in cable modem service. If they cut you, you can't just go to the next provider.