I find this partially interesting but mostly lucky.<p>I don't see this hack raking a lot of dollaroos. "stealing" someone's account would be far more dangerous. That said I'm surprised that Patreon will just let people recycle accounts like this without even a second step.<p>This is no different than DNS parking after a domain fell off the wagon, only with direct revenues.
Interesting! Lot’s of more active scams like this happening in merchandising. I started doing merch for YouTubers back in maybe 2007 and in the last 3-4 years the scams have really picked up.<p>For some time the most well known youtubers would receive spam replies on all of their tweets with links to counterfeit merch sites.<p>If you search for the the top handful of YT creator names on Amazon or eBay you’ll find loads of bootleg merch (sometimes with hundreds of reviews!)
Digital locksmiths here are generally applauded as ingenious. This tale is not at all surprising except that the OP fessed up in the end. The morality aspect is moribund, in an ocean of tracking, data mining, fake accounts, yes fraud, and the general disregard for other peoples hard work (those you don't see, you don't feel for).
is this an exploit I remember there was an "exploit" that reregistered the urls from old tweets of celebs or verified users that had used now expired link shorteners
please submit this to HITB white papers - <a href="https://twitter.com/HITBMedia/status/1359324451976843267" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/HITBMedia/status/1359324451976843267</a>
Not related to the subject of the post, but for anyone interested OP seems to run a stock portfolio tracker for dividend investors, which he mentioned briefly (his blog mostly concerns his investing endeavors). It seemed pretty cool to me and is in need of support, so I'll leave the link here:<p><a href="https://www.digrin.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.digrin.com/</a>