Do they? I mean, logging in is one thing, but transferring? I believe the hacked account owner can just get their funds back, and PayPal is very trigger happy at freezing accounts (especially new or idle) that get a large (a few hundred or more) sum at once.
So if you were to gain access to a stranger's account, you'd have to transfer the money to an existing, old and actively used account. Which is likely to be your own or your friend's.
Seems like a huge risk, so the hackers just sell the account to some idiot willing to try it.
I bought an expensive T-shirt a long time ago from a rather legit looking apparel company (nice website, LTD company/bank account).
Learned the right words on Reddit, hit up Instagram and started looking for and messaging people. Got a few replies, went with the one who had the most legit looking photos.
After a few questions on WhatsApp (yeah, really, lol) got directed to the website and bought the right item... via direct debit because their payment processor was "down".
Big risk on my part, I guess, my plan if popo called was to just say "hey I only ordered a t-shirt!"... I did not think it through very well.
Got it pretty fast (Royal Mail tracked and signed) and found a gift pack of "Revels" inside. How nice of them!
It seems rather risky for them, wouldn't it take just one guy to talk? Or maybe the seller was new to the business.
Tbf, setting up a company, bank account and shipping, all while staying anonymous is extremely easy (but not legal) in the UK compared to the rest of EU.
I lived briefly in Koln, my local DHL driver was a fucking asshole. Driving by my home, marking me as "not home", not leaving the notices and shit. It was always the same guy, I literally saw him pass by me waiting for him, then checking the delivery status it was marked as "undeliverable" or "recipient not home". What a fucking dickhead.
The DHL member card allowed me to send packages to the nearest post office or a Packstation. I just used the former. The cunt actually tried to tell me it was for German citizens only, I told him to give me the fucking package (containing the membership card) and get lost. Turkish piece of shit.
The one I remember, though I can't for the life of me remember it's name, was operating around Benelux, mostly Belgium, France and Netherlands.
The truckers I knew mostly used it to find nearby matches for return trips (so they don't make a return trip empty). I don't know what happened to them.
It is if deep down he knows the Internet has fucked him. Maybe he looks back and thinks about all of that colossal waste of time he wanted to use for something else. And then he gets into the games and on Reddit and forgets everything. It's exactly like heroin (not the Wonder Woman type), the cycles are just longer.
I've wanted something to completely, uncompromisingly block all Internet and software time wasters for a long time. I.e. quit cold turkey, once and for all.
Short of an UEFI-implemented solution (which itself would create problems like total control over your hardware), there's nothing out there that can't be bypassed. And no company is going to do that when the Internet addictions are bringing in billions.
Best way is to treat it at the core, of course, but that's not going to happen, either.
Could you, I don't know, require a license on high power handheld lasers? I see imbeciles shining what looks like 100+ mW laser pens (very cheap, very easy to get) on people.
Now, I don't like laws banning stuff, but these handheld 150-2000 mW lasers can seriously damage someone's eyes. And I'm not going to risk blindness or poor eyesight for the rest of my life because some idiot thought it looked cool.
What's a legitimate use for them? It seems to me that they exist only because "high power, fuck yeah". 50mW is enough for pointing at stuff, and you need industrial lasers to cut something.
Shining them in the sky and at people is already illegal, technically, but this is a real case where preventing purchase would be better.