出版与作家生涯2021krebsonsecurity.com
亚马逊上冒用作者身份的洗钱疑云
Money laundering via author impersonation on Amazon?
导读
Krebs 调查了亚马逊上一批可疑书籍:有人冒用真实作者姓名,用模板批量生成成千上万本书,疑似通过盗刷信用卡自买自卖来转移资金。对写作者来说,这篇值得一读的地方有两处:一是它示范了如何从一条微小异常(一本书的作者名)追出一整条证据链;二是评论区读者用对话、数据和流程拆解,把原文没讲透的部分补成了一套可以借鉴的论证写法。
可以直接用的写作要点
- 01
把荒谬交给人物自己说出来:直接引用客服原话和来回问答,比作者出面批判更有力。
- 02
用可核查的具体数字说话——“几千本医学书”“四万多条计算机书名”——比形容词更能让读者信服。
- 03
讲清复杂机制时拆成编号步骤,并先厘清概念(这是“掩盖资金踪迹”,不是“洗钱”),读者才跟得上。
- 04
调查写作的入口常常是一个小得不起眼的异常,顺着它追问“这不对劲在哪”,比一开始就下大结论更抓人。
HN 评论精选
用客服自相矛盾的原话和层层追问,不用一句评论就把官僚逻辑的荒诞暴露出来。
我遭遇 Verizon 的情况一模一样:有人用我的名字开了无线账户。我交齐了他们要的全部材料,他们回复说“我们的调查认为该账户并非欺诈开通”,等于说这个账户和信用记录就是我本人的。我问:“那我当时是用什么证件开的这个账户?”答:“出于隐私原因,我们不能告诉你。”我问:“这通电话开始时你们核实过我的身份吗?”答:“核实过。”我说:“那你们又说调查认为这账户是我开的?”答:“是的。”我说:“所以为了保护我自己的隐私,我不能看自己的文件?”对方支吾:“这个……万一账户不是您的呢……呃……”
FireBeyond查看英文原文
> So I told them, ‘If you’re saying you can’t say whether I did receive the funds, tell me where they went?’ And they said, “Oh, no, we can’t do that.’ So I can’t clear myself and they won’t clear me.” I had the same with Verizon after someone opened a wireless account in my name. After supplying all the documentation they asked for, they came back to me, "our investigation believes the account was not opened fraudulently" (i.e. that they were saying that the account, and credit tradeline, were in fact mine). "So what documents did I use to open this account?" "We can't tell you, for privacy reasons." "Did you verify my identity at the start of this call?" "Yes." "And you're saying your investigation believes that I opened the account." "Yes." "So I can't see my own documents in order to protect my privacy?" "Well... in case the account isn't yours... umm, ahh..." "..." "..."
用可核查的数量级(几千本、四万条)把“可疑”变成“确凿”,是调查写作的硬证据。
这看着像骗局,但目的不太清楚。G.J. Blokdijk 名下挂了成千上万本医学类书;Gerardus Blokdijk 有超过四万条计算机类书名,明显是模板生成的。
quercusa查看英文原文
This feels like some sort of scam but it's not clear what the purpose would be: G.J. Blokdijk is the 'author' of thousands of medical titles: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=G.J.+Blokdijk&text=G.J.+Blokdijk&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books Gerardus Blokdijk gets more than 40,000 hits for computer-related titles apparently generated by template: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gerardus+Blokdyk&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss
先纠正用词(这是掩盖踪迹而非洗钱),再把作案流程拆成编号步骤,复杂机制一下就清楚了。
与其说这是洗钱,不如说是把犯罪和钱之间的痕迹抹掉,洗钱应该是之后的事。要干成这事,你需要:一、一张或多张盗来的信用卡(当然不在自己名下);二、用假名出书,再用盗来的卡买自己的书;三、有一个开在假名下的银行账户,或者开在某个永远不会透露你真名的银行。钱之所以不算“干净”,是因为它现在躺在一个假名账户或一家不配合执法机构的银行里,但无论如何还是见不得光。
choeger查看英文原文
Not so much laundering the money, but rather obscuring the trail between the crime and the money. Laundering would come afterwards, I presume. Ok, so to pull this of, you need to: 1. have one or more stolen credit cards (obviously not on your name) 2. sell a book under a false name and buy it with the stolen credit card 3. have a bank account somewhere either under the false name from 2. or under some other false name or with a bank that will never give out your real name So the money is not "clean" because it now rests inside a bank account with a false name or a bank that does not cooperate with authorities. In any case it is still somewhat shady.
同类还值得读
写书:值得吗?
Writing a book: is it worth it?
Martin Kleppmann(《设计数据密集型应用》作者)复盘写书到底值不值:金钱回报低、耗时极长,但带来了可见度、信任和职业机会。
出版与作家生涯2020 · 642 分 · 287 评4 条写作要点编辑精选写书并不是个好主意
Writing books is not really a good idea
这篇文章讨论靠写书谋生的现实难度,评论区从版税数学、收入预期和写作目标三个角度补充了作者视角。
出版与作家生涯2021 · 577 分 · 609 评4 条写作要点编辑精选如何自助出版一本书:实用资源清单
How to self-publish a book: A handy list of resources
这是一份关于「如何自助出版一本书」的资源清单帖,涵盖从编辑、排版到 ISBN、销售渠道的实操工具与花费。
出版与作家生涯2018 · 558 分 · 88 评4 条写作要点编辑精选我自助出版一本Ruby on Rails书,赚了7万美元
How I Made $70k Self-Publishing a Book about Ruby on Rails
这是一篇 Ruby 开发者自述:他把一套 Rails 性能课程(书+视频+答疑)自出版,一年毛收入约 7 万美元,并总结了选题、定价、营销等经验。
出版与作家生涯2017 · 539 分 · 175 评4 条写作要点编辑精选石黑一雄警告年轻作家因“恐惧”而自我审查
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'
石黑一雄提醒年轻作者因“恐惧”而自我审查,即这条帖子讨论的核心。
出版与作家生涯2021 · 396 分 · 641 评5 条写作要点编辑精选