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Bogus Pirate IPTV Portals Run By Law Enforcement "Entrap Hundreds" * TorrentFreak
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I found the article hard to read. Not sure if anyone else did.
In any case, if an IPTV site asks you for the full name and/or credit card info, I'd be very suspicious. Lol
Somehow in Italy many of this sites ask payment with "ricarica Postepay" which is the stupidest payment method ever because:
It's the most traceable payment method that's available in the country, I have no idea why so many IPTV resellers on forums and telegram channels use it. Just the fact that the reseller has to publicly give all his personal data to strangers is crazy
(It's not designed to be used as a payment method, but a way to send money to a relative or a close friend)
So I always laugh when the "post police" (yes we have a police corp for post related crimes) or "tax police" (yes we also have a police corp for tax related crimes) say "we arrested a IPTV resellers" because that often just means "a officer just entered in a telegram channel, got all the necessary PII the perpetrator himself, and searched him in the database"
Edit: first result on Google, can only pay with Bitcoin, ricarica Postepay and bank transfer and in order to proceed you need to send a text message to their fucking WhatsApp
All of three methods are ultra traceable (ok, compared to the "ricarica Postepay", Bitcoin is a bit harder)
This website has the audacity of saying "Sicurezza e Anonimato con protezioni a livello militare con noi sei al sicuro" (safe and anonymous, with military grade encryption) - anonymous what, need to give phone number and tax id in order to proceed....
Edit 2: news from two weeks ago. 23 users paid for IPTV using that stupid ultra-traceable payment method and of course they were caught in seconds with a simple database search. Prosecutor wanted to give them 2-8 years for "fencing", judge said "personal use isn't a crime" https://www.fanpage.it/sport/calcio/il-pezzotto-per-vedere-calcio-in-tv-e-illecito-ma-non-reato-13-pirati-puniti-solo-con-una-multa/
So if real users got acquitted, victims of an entrapment site will be too, as there's no crime at all
That’s hilarious! Why would they do that? Also the US also has postal police and they’re intense
Easy.
Back scratching and you've got to remember these community's / sport / events have global bodies such as UEFA wanting their ching ching.
Them getting off their cushion of sponsors sending them money for the infra, and then doing fuck all other than regulating how the monies comes in is fairly telling how it's going to affect them both downstream and, upstream :/