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[CW: SV] Today I learned about something horrifying called the "strip search phone call scam" (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago by BeanisBrain@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Short version: guy posing as a cop calls random restaurants impersonating a police officer and convinces staff to commit escalating acts of sexual violence against arbitrarily singled out female employees. He successfully pulls this off dozens of times and gets away with it (a suspect was arrested but not convicted).

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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's more about risk/risk mitigation in an authoritarian society, but cops, judges, military, and specific parts of the government represent the top of that society. The same phenomenon occurs in those phone scams with the elderly to give them all their money in Google Play cards, or whatever.