The best part of the story is how he hacked the US immigration system to be able to stay in the US after serving his time: > Factoring in time served and a reduction for good behavior, Naskovets got out in September 2012. He faced a deportation order that would have sent him back to Belarus. Representing himself in immigration court, he argued that he risked torture if sent home, based on his run-ins with the KGB. As…
Yale-Loehr must be so proud. Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit. The only way they can torture there is by forcing you to eat their organic condensed sweetened milk.
An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Account
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#22I didn't know that is the new way to get residence in the US... Hey, FBI guys, next time maybe you send thieves like this one to spend some time behind bars in their home country, so they will truly get what they deserve.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
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#23Commit crimes, get relatively short term sentence and pay 200$ fine, stay in the U.S. Crime does pay. Sucks pretty hard, identity theft is really nasty if it happens to you. That being said while slightly exaggerated the claim of torture in Belarus isn't far fetched. Dude in charge is pretty much a crazy dictator. I remember during the (last?) elections his main opponent was mysteriously beaten up and he said in an i…
The idea that you arrest someone to serve time in your prison because he broke your laws, and then you cannot send them back because of another law is just mind-blowing.
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#24I didn't know that is the new way to get residence in the US... Hey, FBI guys, next time maybe you send thieves like this one to spend some time behind bars in their home country, so they will truly get what they deserve.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yale-Loehr must be so proud. Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit. The only way they can torture there is by forcing you to eat their organic condensed sweetened milk.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/europe-and-central-asia...
There is even no word "torture" in the document.
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#26I didn't know that is the new way to get residence in the US... Hey, FBI guys, next time maybe you send thieves like this one to spend some time behind bars in their home country, so they will truly get what they deserve.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
I'm also from a former soviet colony, but I have no sympathy for him, he'd be doing the same thing if he hadn't been caught.
Yeah, he'll be a cybersecurity consultant and he will help the US government to improve its security.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't really argue with you but I have lots of sympathy for the kid despite him being a criminal. It's probably because I was born in a country occupied by Russia until the 90s and his is still and I can't bring myself to wish this unto anyone. It's probably not a good idea to trust a con-man but I think he's likely to become a net positive asset to society.
You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.
I was under the impression that Belarus is firmly under Moscow's influence?
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#28The best part of the story is how he hacked the US immigration system to be able to stay in the US after serving his time: > Factoring in time served and a reduction for good behavior, Naskovets got out in September 2012. He faced a deportation order that would have sent him back to Belarus. Representing himself in immigration court, he argued that he risked torture if sent home, based on his run-ins with the KGB. As…
Yale-Loehr must be so proud. Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit. The only way they can torture there is by forcing you to eat their organic condensed sweetened milk.
I hate that you're being downvoted. There's a real gamification of immigration and welfare benefits in the US by shady lawyers that serve the corrupt and steal resources from those who actually need them. These stories are endless.
The big problem with building a pro-immigration welfare state is that there's often no check on fraud. Bureaucrats like bigger budgets, expanding, etc and would rather just rubber stamp everything 'yes' than tackle things like fraud. Judges don't want to be labeled racist or anti-immigration, especially if they are voted in like they are in my state.
Now we're in this ugly position where we've imported all this unskilled labor and are simultaneously building automated solutions that'll make them redundant. Where will the taxi drivers and janitors go when robots replace them? Why are we importing in so much labor when U6 unemployment rates are still above 10%? What evidence do we have that this man is actually a torture risk? In Russia's sphere of influence pretty much everyone is a torture risk. That's what? 150m people?
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#29Quick question : would you pay extra fees for a credit card that only allows transaction from whitelisted stores and if used online, the shipping address could be only to a whitelisted address ?
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#30Wait, I don't get this. The Amex agent called the old phone number on the account. The person who answered gave some indication of being the account owner, but didn't answer quite as many questions correctly as the thief. So what scenario is the agent hypothesizing? The person at the old number was actually the identity thief, and used the account for maybe several years without any challenge, before the actual owner…
I'd like to think that if there was any ambiguity there they'd call me into a branch to present ID or whatever.
American Express doesn't have branches, but I'm sure there are plenty of ways one can verify his or her identity without going inside a branch.