Definitely report it to the RCMP, but you can also report it to the US FBI via https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. I'd suggest not mentioning that you're a Canadian citizen; just let them assume you're American so they don't use your citizenship as an excuse to just shut down the case and ignore it. I'm not suggesting you lie of course, but let them draw their own conclusions.
Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
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Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
#22Make a note for the support people to ignore fraud attempts matching the details. Then move on.
DO NOT DO THIS. Having worked in customer care security, I can gaurantee that the note will be missed or ignored.
Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
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#25he might try doing it again, that's often called spear phishing in a more nerdy manner, just let people around you know this happened and move on.
Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could’ve been someone who performed a sim swap on another in order to leave no trace though, or a prepaid phone number that will be recycled after a year
Do parentheses make text invisible on this forum?
I’m not sure to be honest, I’m pretty sure it supports just generic markup
Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely: “hackers phone number” is an oxymoron, because no somewhat experienced hacker would ever give out their personal number. Don’t be shocked if it’s some twilio or google voice number
It IS possible that they screwed up. But yeah, I doubt it
If you attack the number you might hit an innocent bystander whose number as been misused by the hacker.
Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could’ve been someone who performed a sim swap on another in order to leave no trace though, or a prepaid phone number that will be recycled after a year
Do parentheses make text invisible on this forum?
No. When you are downvoted / flagged by enough users your text slowly fades out. Though, I believe you have to be configured to show dead comments.
Re: Ask HN: I found out a hacker's phone number. Now what?
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do parentheses make text invisible on this forum?
No. When you are downvoted / flagged by enough users your text slowly fades out. Though, I believe you have to be configured to show dead comments.
You missed my point. I clearly explained that I was joking, inside parentheses, and then got serious responses as though I really meant for them to do it.