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Word of mouth 2.0

2024-04-02T03:46:59.814Z

Highlights: WhatsApp groups and Snapchat messages have replaced word of mouth between neighbors to find the “professional” ready to carry out (under the table, need it be specified?) handling. Evolution was inevitable. There is no reason for the underground business to remain isolated from the digitalization of the economy. The shift from small deal points at the foot of suburban buildings to drug order "loops", with home delivery, has already shown it in another register. The novelty lies rather in the method of dissemination of the scheme.


WhatsApp groups and Snapchat messages have replaced secret exchanges to find the trick to tamper with your meter.


Electric meters tampered with completely illegally to reduce the amount of the bill? We didn't have to wait for Linky for that! At the time of the good old electromechanical boxes – which began to be replaced almost ten years ago – the know-how for blocking the rotating disc was already widespread. The novelty lies rather in the method of dissemination of the scheme: WhatsApp groups and Snapchat messages have replaced word of mouth between neighbors to find the “professional” ready to carry out (under the table, need it be specified?) handling.

Evolution was inevitable. There is no reason for the underground business to remain isolated from the digitalization of the economy - the well-known shift from small deal points at the foot of suburban buildings to drug order "loops", with home delivery, has already shown it in another register.

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Source: leparis

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