When I read this I was assuming there would be some complex darkweb site used to organize this but nope, they did it on discord and telegram. This almost sounds more like idiots being idiots then any kind of organized threat
And worse, being a platform for gamers, the conversation of real world criminals might be very difficult to differentiate from regular gamer talk. Just think how many groups are constantly chatting about GTA V. They're literally talking about the crimes they're committing (in the game world). Discord might actually be the perfect place for criminals to hide their conversations in plain sight.
Except once you get one person who belong to such a group (by any conventional means) or even have one informant, then you can see where they hang out on discord (and there won't be a million of channels to scan) and now you have access to a nice topology of discord use for organized crime.
Thank deity they're not.
How many police districts use Palantir?
Now, hiding their identities... yeah, some improvements can be made
They’d often sidechat you onto kik or something like that but initial find was on insta.
If I can navigate it the 20 year olds sure can.
Smart ones gets into business and commit well hidden frauds rather then violence (which tends to attract attention, eventually).