Post Online About Commiting A Crime, Get Arrested -- A Concidence?

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Last edited Fri Sep 2, 2016, 02:15 PM - Edit history (9)

Not long ago, I read about a guy who pulled up next to a parked, empty police car, and used it as a backdrop for a selfie of him holding a bag of pot and a gun. He posted the pic on Instagram and was arrested a few days later, which I shrugged off as a mere coincidence -- for all we know, he had an outstanding warrant. But then I came across this:

VladTV.com: …On...April 26th...39 members of the...rap squadron Pop Out Boyz were arrested…(T)hey garnered upwards of $250,000 in stolen merchandise from a myriad of high-end stores throughout the (New York City) area…

The scammers are using a grossly popular credit card scheme called “card cracking.” A card cracking scheme involves fraudsters contacting unsuspecting victims through social networks and offering to deposit money into their bank accounts under false pretenses then promising the account holder a percentage of the deposit. Once the phony check is deposited the fraudster removes the funds and leaves the victim responsible for paying the bank once the check bounces.

…Ironically the Pop Out Boyz released a song on SoundCloud entitled For A Scammer…(O)ne member of the group raps:

Turning nothing into something
Watch how the commas keep coming
Getting it back like it’s nothing
Watch the money do a back flip
Early morning up at Saks Fifth

The song is filled with admissions about credit card fraud and the many purchases made including Nike Air Jordans and Celine bags…

Two coincidences are TOO coincidental. On the other hand, maybe all 39 of them had outstanding warrants.

After all, the police surely have better things to do than monitor the Internet's video, social, and music networks in hopes of finding people either too egotistical or just plain stupid to realize that by bragging about their crimes online, they're incriminating themselves. And I certainly don't think it's a coincidence that no violent crimes are involved -- I mean, you'd have to be a Grade-A idiot to post online about that!

They were convicted? They never should have been found competent to stand trial!


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