Social Engineering - Russian Deliveries

[Brian O.]

http://englishrussia.com/?p=334

They found a work around to get things delivered to their country and theres some interesting comments left under the article.

[john_childs]

That hack is a few years old. I doubt it would work on any of the major e-commerce sites now. I would hope that the various postal services have also wised up to that scam and will no longer automatically forward obviously scammed shipping addresses.

The comments on the article though are interesting.

[ivan]

This is truly pathetic. Instead of working to reform the corruption that is destroying Russia society, Russians instead decide to INCREASE corruption in order to overcome the problems created by the first corruption. It’s a vicious circle and will lead Russia to its doom. The fact that Russians can take pride in such a thing only goes to show how barbaric and hopeless Russian society really is.

I think there's some truth to that, unfortunately. But then again, it can be applied to other societies too.