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> we can find some homeless guy, and for bottle of whisky tell him to buy it for us in some pawn shop

this and a whole lot more

it's amazing what some of the guys in my area will do for a bottle of whisky

I guess you SF-based techies are even more blessed than the rest of us

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Funny is how much is this SF for you. In country where I live these people are called "słup". Literally "pole". In english it would be something related to "bogus company". People who for money, drugs or alcohol do stuff for you. Like buy and register sim card. Provide you their identity details with ID. For 200 USD they can even go to the bank and create account providing all details to you. You even can register fake companies on these people if you get them flat, clean clothes and something to drink every week :) It is so many scams in central and east Europe, that for me funny and SF is that if you do not understand something or you didn't see it, it's a fake in your opinion.

Wow, that's fascinating! Thanks for your insight. I'd love to live in an area with słup, so many opportunities come to mind. In the US/UK the closest you get to that is Taskrabbit, but there's obviously strong limits on what you can do without getting into trouble.

Yeah I know. This is really scarry, but it still works pretty well and each month you can hear news about some scams for money on auction or local offers portals similar to Ebay, where people pay for something, never get products and money are lost as action was done over the weekend money went to the fake account registered for some homeless guy, who register account and sold access to some cyber criminals. For example they sold 12 Iphone 14 for very cheap price, and before it was reported to the police and bank company to block accounts, money was not there already. They track money, and its already exchanged for crypto or took from ATM by another poor guy (recorded by bank cameras), who was hired just to withdraw money for percent of amount he withdraw. Sic stories but works.

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