• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    If you are a Google Maps Contributor, you get points for submitting reviews and photos. Points increase your level. The higher your level, the more free stuff you get. At level 6, I got free socks.

    The reviews often included photos of the restaurants, which sometimes featured photos of the Irish drug lord himself.

    Gonna bet this guy is way high of a level to keep outing himself.

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        it’s not a thing anymore. being a maps contributor in the past put you into a little club where you got rewards for reaching guide levels. they used to give away Google drive space , invites to socials, and the socks mentioned in this thread. unfortunately it went away since it’s not a novel feature where they need to drive people to be contribute.

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          Shoot. I never looked at those emails because they sent so many. Free drive space, pins, Google Play Cash. All expired now. oh well.

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        I’m making a bunch of assumptions but I’m guessing US-specific offer, and maybe I did a wide range of activities? I was in-between jobs in 2017 and scored a lot of points around that time from my wandering.

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    “He’s at the Hilton!” “Well then, let’s go there!” “I dunno, it doesn’t sound great. This guy only ranked it 2 stars, and apparently it really hates cops.”

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    I like how they found him on LinkedIn first then just searched him up on google to find his other accounts.

    I wonder if his account was recommended to the FBI agent as someone he might know is now using LinkedIn

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    So…why haven’t they been arrested?

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      The bellingcat article mentions that the UAE may extradite kinahan sr soon. I imagine he’s been able to put it off this long because money and connections. Just like every other rich fuck

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    Dude uses his real fucken names. All you had to be was Dejorno McBawls and you’re good.

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      Seriously. I’d at least switch my name to angstytits. Delay my reviews until I’d left town at the very least.

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    “Can’t stop”?

    “Won’t stop” is more like it.

    It’s a power move.

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    The revelation comes two years after a LinkedIn profile associated with Kinahan named “Christopher Vincent”—the same name on the Google account—was uncovered.

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    “Yeah, but the cannolis at the bakery on 42nd really are shit”