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Scalpers amassed appointments using bots and fake accounts to exploit an online system. The Tax Collector's Office spotted 200 suspicious appointments in the first three weeks after opening a new downtown Miami location for driver's license services, the Miami Herald reports. The agency has its sights set on individuals who are part of local driving schools as suspects in strangling the DMV's system. Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez said in a release:

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why the hell can you even make an appointment to a public service not registered to a specific person?

You need to go to the DMV to acquire legal ID, usually. Plus SSN isn’t exactly..secure so can be easily brute forced.

And why the hell can you make more than 1 appointment?

You do know multiple people can live in a household, right? And/or multiple people can use the same computer? Like at libraries?

I agree that the US desperately needs infrastructure upgrades (including with the education system that’s actively being torn apart), but to blame the basic services we do have for being abused by shitty people, when it’s largely the fault of intentional underfunding and gerrymandering isn’t productive.

Maybe you’re a troll, and you’re likely not USian so it’s not something you need to care about, but I hope anyway you can find a moment to deep breathe and have a good rest of your day. /gen

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You need to go to the DMV to acquire legal ID

You can still make it to a specific person. It would be weird to have an appointment as John Doe, but ask for services for another name. And that should of course be dismissed.

Plus SSN isn’t exactly…secure so can be easily brute forced.

There is no mention of this being a hack. And it doesn't change the basics for making an appointment, unless someone hacks the system real time to make a reservation in your name. Also hacking has extreme penalties in USA, so we would be talking severe crime contrary to it not even being illegal as it is.

You do know multiple people can live in a household, right?

And how does that change anything?

And/or multiple people can use the same computer? Like at libraries?

And how does that change anything?
It should still only be possible to make reservations for 1 specific person, it has never been an issue where I live.

I think if you want to arrange a family meeting, you are thinking of social services, not the DMV.