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If I were going to do this, I would: 1. Have done quite a few more people than I showed in the video, so you're seeing only the most dramatic. 2. Try to crack their email account by guessing their lost-password question from info on Facebook or other such sites, which is where I probably got the address as well. (Plus Facebook provides photo confirmation that you have the right $FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME.) 3. From there, the sky's the limit.

I don't know what the success rate of that would be, but I'm pretty confident I'd come up with plenty of fodder for a 2 minute video in well under a day of sitting in a tent.

And that's just my first knee-jerk thought. A few practice runs before hand and I'm sure I'd find some other easy tricks to pull.



I don't think he is actually breaking into mailboxes/cracking passwords. That seems really beyond the scope of what bank marketing would do.


You're assuming the whole thing isn't staged.


Yes, it probably was. It is a PSA and not a documentary.

But it didn't have to be. What I said would work often enough. It really could be done on the fly, even if it wasn't.




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