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Maybe. Or maybe the account in question has a long history but got taken over by a scammer. It’s the oldest trick in the book. Find long standing accounts and take them over. Boom, now they look totally legit!

Shit is hard. If it was easy to tell fraudsters from real people we’d never be discussing this. The fraudsters are willing to invest unimaginable amounts of time and effort to get into your systems and do their dirty work. Every fix you make will eventually be routed around. Always.



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