2022-06-25 at 10:27 PM UTC
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Buying stocks
TNA and other 3x ETFs are what I'm considering. I'm not sure how much worse things can get and the market has already priced it in. War, Recession, Inflation, Biden, etc.
For my apartment rent, I have an option where I can pay using cash or debit(including Vanilla Visa gift card) at a store location. I usually keep a large credit balance on the account.
I went to a retail store two weeks ago to pay $500 via a Vanilla gift card. When the lady put in the information and submitted it, it just spun an icon. After a few minutes it went back to the previous screen. She tried running it again and it did the same thing. She told me that the system was down and that I could come back tomorrow.
I checked today and both actually went through. They were never charged back, at least not yet and it's been two weeks.
How could someone hypothetically create a DOS that causes this to happen again?
I have no experience with DOS attacks. Is it basically find the IP of the web server that handles the transactions and running an attack on it right when she enters the data? Or would one need to do the attack on their local network.
Either way I'm up $1k.
I thought this thread was going to be about me.
Long story short, my side hustle that was allowing me to obtain like $500-$800 in gift cards every month and allowed me to get other necessities for free, got shut down. They changed the system and I can't get my gift cards anymore, but I still can get my other necessities for free, so that's a good thing.
I like Java and Python, know some C, program Android apps, like rPi/radxa stuff.
I like making automated bots. That was part of my hustle that just got shut down. I can probably make one that bypasses captchas. Also auto-dialing into automated phone systems, on repeat.
I'm not too desperate but need to fill this new void. It's almost like I just lost a part-time job.
I don't think my phone is compromised. If someone had root access, they would have access to my authenticator app, would also be able to log me out of my email account and I would likely never have even known.
How they accessed the SMS message is what baffles me. I never even received it. But I think my visual voice mail had something to do with it. I was getting message after message that read something like "Unable to log into Visual Voice Mail". Just look at the apps permissions and saw that it has SMS allowed, I just disabled it.
Who ever did it also set a enhancement to send Coinbase emails to my trash.
They accessed my email and changed my Coinbase password in the same minute. I locked my Coinbase account 11 minutes later. I don't think they were able to send anything because I use an authenticator app and I received the email about my account being disabled but didn't receive any about funds being sent.
I still want to know how they did it...
Somehow they were able to receive a code that was sent to my phone that I currently and in possession of and my phone number is active on it.
I'm starting to worry that my phone may be compromised...
After setting the PIN on my voicemail, the notifications have gone away.
I also use a auth app for Coinbase which confuses me on how they passed that.
Also, my email client show that a laptop running Windows access the account. I signed it out.
Yeah, last time it was a sim swap, this time...
I was literally making diner like an hour ago and I heard my phone beep. I went to check it and I see an email that is a sign in notification from my email client. At first I thought it was a phishing email. Then I noticed another email saying that I changed my Coinbase password. I see a notification from the Coinbase app on my phone saying that I changed my password. I realize that these are not fake. I pop open my laptop and try to sign in to Coinbase and I can not. So I disable my Coinbase account.
The email from my phone says that it used my phone number to access my acount using a one-time passcode. I have my phone and called it using a burner. WTF?
I kept getting a notification from my visual voice mail app that it couldn't connect. I realized I never set the PIN on it. So I set the PIN.
Could someone have retrieve a one-time pass code to my phone and retrieved it via voicemail? I checked my texts and had no one-time pass codes.
I'm freaking out...
2022-02-20 at 12:57 AM UTC
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holy shit guys I did it
Didn't shit the bed last night?
Once the US government outlaws it, the prices will go to near zero.
