I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.
I assumed that he wasn't in the mother's (or child's) life except for the child support payments link, and therefore planned on her believing him to be dead.
If he was still living near her or even in contact with her then yes, it would seem to be a completely pointless plan to me also.
I thought the same. As ever, most of these people seem to get caught because they get greedy (possibly I've been listening to too many episodes of Darknet Diaries recently).
Think so? At some point you'd assume the other parent would be pushing for the payments through some avenue that would lead them to tell her that he's dead.
Looks like he in fact succeeded in avoiding the payments? Like the meme, the task failed successfully. Not sure what happens when he gets out of prison.
Sounds like he got the double instead of the nothing. The last line of the article mentions he now owes close to 200k, when he had originally owed 100k at the start of the scheme.
I wonder how much he banked from the sold access in the middle.
