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08.09.24

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USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

BY MATT BURGESS

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

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