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[deviousbubbles]

I don’t see this being talked about a lot, so here’s a well-meaning warning about how you are going to see a lot of contradicting information and tips ✍️

One post may say that a certain store is easy, while another will say that it’s dangerous. That’s the simplest example I can think of, but it really applies to most things (like how much cameras are watched, what is tagged, if LP are present). Please please please do your own research and be critical of the information you’re seeing. Think for yourself, do not by any means take someone’s word for it. Do not rely on others for your safety, because when it comes down to it if you get caught that is on YOU and you will be the only one paying the consequences. So please, be proactive and be safe by taking matters into your own hands. What you see online is not fact, and not even your own experiences will always be consistent. There’s so many factors to consider (location, your appearance, skill level, time of day or year, etc etc etc), and if you don’t think it’s important enough to prioritize your safety, you will find yourself having a forced change of heart if you are caught. Nothing is more important than your safety and freedom, don’t let irreversible consequences be the thing to make you remember that.

[lifterqueen-deactivated20230306]

guys, i've worked in a mall and i have some tips :)

never look scared no matter what the situation, act normal all the time. check prices, ask employees random questions about the store or the product, talk on the phone with a friend while in the store.

wearing masks doesn't make you look suspicious, but never wear sunglasses.

try shoplifting with friends or a partner, it's less suspicious.

most of the employees don't care about you inside the store, they usually pretend to pay attention to customers but are not really paying attention.

[bfyhnkhff-deactivated20240104]

DISGUISES FOR BEGINNERS

hi guys i havent been able to l!ft much lately because of school and i was bored so i made these pictures to help new people learn about disguises.

why wear disguises?

well, if you want to l!ft often, and for a long time, without being caught, then disguises are kind of necessary. eventually after some months the workers will recognize you, and build a case against you. disguises prevent this, disguises are very important!

i know disguises can be expensive, i recommend to 🧬 your disguises from àmâzôn so you arent spending much money. also, your purses / clothing does NOT have to be name brand to look nice! most rich people don’t wear name brand stuff anyways.

THE FOUR MAIN WAYS WORKERS RECOGNIZE YOU :

- your hair

- your purse

- any tattoos

- your style (if you have unique style)

seriously, changing your purse and putting on a wig can completely change a person! (from LP / employees perspective)

informational photos i made!!

the last photo is my personal preference for my disguise style, but not really necessary. you can also wear business casual clothing for the same effect. i kind of just made this for fun :)

remember, just because you are wearing a disguise doesn’t mean you still cant be caught, stay careful and safe! good luck

[hevvylyftng]

Etsy has killer fake tattoos

[lemonlifts]

tips for blindspots from a bb lifter??

An important thing to remember when searching for a blind spot is to not look directly at the cameras! I know your instinct is gonna be to tilt your head up and scan the ceiling to make sure you didn’t miss any but it is extremely obvious lp know exactly what you are doing when you do this. You need to make sure you are only moving your eyes when you glance up at the ceiling and to keep your head in the same position it was before. This is also best to do as you stroll by so you’re not just stopping to look at the ceiling!

Also hidden cameras are a thing, although not extremely common. If a blind spot seems too good to be true, for example no cameras in an isle with electronics and video games, then it likely is. Sometimes stores place hidden cameras to trick people into concealing directly on camera, while believing they are in a blind spot. These cameras can be very difficult and near impossible to spot, but are not extremely common so I would just be very weary of blind spots that seem too good to be true or are in a high theft area of the store.

My favorite blind spot method when looking to conceal small items is making my own blind spots using angles and slight of hand. The idea is that you can angle your body in certain ways in front of the camera where it is not clear what you are doing. For example squatting down to look at the bottom shelf while you are angled in a way that the camera can not see the side of you that your bag/purse is on while discreetly slipping and item in. If you use slight of hand at the same time you can conceal small items without the camera picking up on it. One slight of hand method is the “take two, put back one” method. This is where you grab two of the same items, making it look like you are only holding one thing and you discreetly conceal one and then put the other on back on the shelf. If you pull it off right, from the camera’s perspective it looks like you picked one item up and then changed your mind about it and put it back. You can also use other people to block the view of cameras but I do not recommend this method for beginners.

My last tip is sometimes when you Google your specific store location that you plan on going to it will show review photos that sometimes show the layout of the store and if your lucky it will show the ceiling so you can look and see where the cameras are. If you can find photos like this you will have an idea where the cameras are and possibly be able to scout blind spots before you even go into the store!

[inesliftz-deactivated20251104]

Cool tip!!! go to your local PD’s website and look up active calls for service. they also provide you with an address so you can see in real time which stores are prosecuting for łįf tîńg. You’ll have to do some searching cause all you’ll get is an address. But theres been a lotttt of these reports as it’s gotten closer to Christmas. Be safe!

[lemonlifts]

I made a little diagram about something that I think is very important but have never seen discussed, which is how to properly leave a store

I find this is extremely important when you know you are going to beep, think you might beep, or have a feeling they are onto you. If you were never even seen leaving there is no way for them to stop you. I find this works best in mall stores which tend to have the big open exits with displays near them but the concept can be applied to any store.

If anyone is confused or needs further explaining I’d be happy to answer questions :)

[dna-stories]

this isnt a dna story but rather some advice- i dont have my own blog, hope this is ok to submit!

business owners call dnas "friendly fraud." if you google it you'll see how stores try to prevent dnas through softwares that crosscheck your name, billing/shipping address, age of email address, etc. check through reddit for ecommerce owners dealing with chargebacks.

here's a list of protective measures:

1. IDENTITY: use a burner phone number and a dedicated dna email for online shopping accounts. make sure your fake name lines up across these different pieces of "digital id".

2. ONLINE PROTECTION: always block cookies/trackers, i use ublock origin. always use a vpn and a proxy. riseup.net is a good free vpn, i like tor as my browser.

3. PAYMENTS: never use your personal payment method, over time it can get flagged. too many refunds will look sus on paypal, and it could plausibly damage your credit score. use a virtual credit card (ex. koho [canada], privacy [usa], revolut [uk]).

if you are someone that has done multiple dnas, it is VERY LIKELY that your email/ip is implicated in a fraud prevention software database. multiple companies use the same softwares, this is why your orders get cancelled sometimes. change your id often!

dnas may be easy but remember it is fraud which is a crime! act accordingly!

thank you so much to whoever took the time to share these amazing tips. if you have a liftblr, please message me privately so i can give you credit!

excellent advice for newbie and seasoned DNAers.

[lilmissthriftypants-blog]

!!!!!

Guys!!! Idk if this is already common knowledge on here, but Im just discovering this and really want to share. So I’ve been scowering liftblr for tips on specific stores, but have come up empty handed on a lot of my regional stores that aren’t everywhere. And I needed to know the LP situation but don’t know anyone that currently works there. So! I went on their websites and looked at their job listings for loss prevention and every one so far has listed DETAILED AF duties. Now I know exactly if cameras are actively monitored, if they have plainclothes LP, if they call police, what shifts they are shorthanded on , and when multiple locations share LP. MUAHAHAHAHAHAH

[heylifty]

Damn that’s some scoop, lemme go try this REAL quick!

[secret-shopper]

i just tried this for a few stores and there’s actually a lot of helpful info on their websites-

[blueberry-liftcake]

op your brain is enormous

[lustforlifts]

Got chased

I was in an erben autfitterz and it was busy as hell. I took notice every other person was beeping as they left, so I got cocky. None of the workers really seemed to care either when people beeped so I just started picking out things I liked. I knew I would beep so I was just planning to keep walking, but i was literally out the door when I hear someone screaming “wait, come back” “come back NOW” and i just booked it. I could hear her yelling “I’m calling security!!” and I did not turn back. She must’ve chased me atleast a block down.

Luckily I took public transit so I couldn’t be connected to a plate. What a way to end my year lol, this was my last lift of the year so it ended out with a real bang. Adrenaline took over and I’m glad it did, because I was not going to catch a case! Anyways, be careful out there friends, and remember to always run and don’t wait, keep walking when you beep. And don’t get cocky like I did, lol. What I imagine happened is either she was watching the cameras in the back and ran out when she saw I was leaving, or she had been getting on the poor employees for not stopping anyone who beeped before me, and was trying to make an example out of me. Either way I don’t know what she expected even if she caught me- to hold me by the arm and drag me back? Be serious. Anyways, safe lifting you guys.

[bosslifter]

Yeahhhhhh girl that's hows it's done. Lol.

Always be on your toes. Do what you gotta do.

No ID no case

[pasta-lifts-deactivated20230219]

I came up with a new disguise that’s been working amazing. The best LP deterrent I’ve came up with.

basically dress like you’re an office lady/businesswoman that just got off of work. So a pencil skirt, nylon tights, heels, a button up, and blazer

if you have edgy/dyed hair wear a wig that looks like a grown woman’s hairstyle and plain but mature makeup.

Specifically if you’re brown this will really help. I’m Mexican, so i get profiled a lot at stores regardless of if I’m l1fting or not. It’s sad but people who profile us will respect us more if we have “earned it” by being “one of the good ones” (being presumably well off and successful, things that business women are)

If you’re gonna do this, do it after 5 pm as that’s when people who work 9-5/ get off work, also this will be most effective in malls and grocery stores I think. LP is less likely to consider you as a theif CONSIDERABLY.

[acquirerofthings]

Shoplifting Tips from a Loss Prevention Officer

Worst Techniques

Wearing out articles of clothing.

Opening packages and putting the item in your bag/pockets/whatever. Seriously, don’t take things out of packages. If there are security tags on the packaging, take them off, but for the love of god stop taking things out of packages and leaving behind the empty boxes. It’s really obvious.

Carrying whatever it is you’re going to steal around the store for ages looking for a nice empty aisle to conceal it in. Walking around with a bunch of video games in the bath towels makes what you’re about to do fairly obvious.

If you were in my store, and you draped your jacket over the stuff in your cart, I’d definitely watch you. People do that kind of stuff to hide what their hands are doing (opening packages, tearing off security sensors, etc).

Best Techniques

Make you you actually look like you’re shopping. If you aren’t looking at the prices of items and you’re just grabbing whatever it is you want off the shelf, it looks like a red flag.

Concealing the stuff that you want to steal while you’re in line waiting to pay for something else. If we’re following you, and you get in line to pay for all of your stuff, we’re probably going to stop watching you at that point.

Don’t take things out of packages! it takes too much time, it makes noise, you leave the the empty package behind and if we see you set down an empty package, even if we didn’t see you stuff the item in your bag/pockets, we’ll probably apprehend you.

If you’re going to conceal the merchandise on your person somehow, don’t leave the store right away after you do this. Chill out, browse, use the bathroom (a lot of retail stores have policies like this– once you go into the bathroom, it’s over, we’ve technically lost sight of you). If we lose you for a while, it’s very dangerous to make the apprehension– stores face a huge liability if loss prevention apprehends someone and they decided not to steal the item and left it in the store somewhere.

Steal during busy hours of the day, when there are lots of people shopping.

Also, if you’re youngish (under 22 or so) and with a group of similarly aged friends, don’t even try. The second a group of teenagers walks in, we’re probably watching them.

If you’re going to hide the merchandise on your person somehow, DO IT WHILE YOU’RE WALKING. Don’t stop, look around, and then stuff it. I cannot stress this one enough. It is much harder to see what you’re doing if you’re walking around from aisle to aisle, especially if loss prevention is following you around on foot instead of with CCTV.

 I’d recommend not concealing merchandise in the bathrooms, but definitely using them after concealing merchandise, because it’s a break in surveillance. I’d recommend concealing a couple things that you don’t really want in addition to what you DO want (on the sales floor, not in the bathrooms), and then leaving the items you don’t want in the bathrooms, because they will check the stalls. Confusion is key!

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[anarchylifts]

man i want to do a grocery walkout but i do not have a car so if anyone chases i am fucked for sure 😭😭 what are good techniques for stealing smaller things from groceries like snacks or instant pasta sachets n stuff? i’m always so worried abt concealing on floor since there’s so many cameras and usually people around

[roccocobasilisk-deactivated2023]

I’ve successfully acquired 💻 and 📸 I can’t believe myself… I’m… impressed. That’s like $8k…

It feels like I just used a cheat code in the sims irl lmao

[anarchylifts]

how tf omg

[hyunjinlift]

PLEASE BE AWARE: PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE STILL AT RISK OF BEING DOXXED

This is a post from an anonymous imageboard called ļolçöw. This is the information that a single person was able to gather on just ONE person from our community (along w the vague location of another).

KEEP IN MIND:

Despite what you might believe, THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT GATHERED BY MEANS OF HACKING OR ANY MEANS THAT WERE OUT OF THE CONTROL OF THE PERSON THEY ARE TARGETTING.

What we are doing is ILLEGAL. It is AGAINST THE LAW and whatever we put on public blogs can be sought and used by any person for any reason. Even if that reason is tracking down your real life identity.

I have chosen to censor the urls of the people who this post was targetting, but it is ultimately UP TO YOU to make sure you aren't doxxed in this situation. Whether or not you think shòpĺifting/fŕiendly fŕaud is a moral issue, it is against the law and there are people who will use the information you CHOOSE to put on your public blogs and use them against you.

I'm not even going to go into the fact that one of the people namedropped here in the post very stupidly posted a selfie on their account and how dangerous that is for them, because that is on THEM, and it ultimately only affects them.

I'm not active in this community anymore but I do still lurk and I do still look out for people who may be in danger of getting doxxed. but just be aware that it is ultimately in your hands to exhibit web safety.

If you don't want this to happen to you, I'd suggest following these tips that I don't see mentioned a lot

REMOVE METADATA from all photos you post. This is a no brainer but a LOT of people don't follow this no matter how much it's posted.

Don't post the names of stores you ĺift from that are extremely specific to the area you live in/near.

Don't overshare on your blog. I know we can feel very comfortable in this community, but there are rats everywhere. Nobody NEEDS to know your personal living situation, when your moving, where to, where you've lived in the past, etc.

Sorry for the super long post, but this is surprisingly a very common issue in this comm nowadays. As someone who's been here since ~2015, it sucks that people STILL don't know the basics of web safety and keeping your identity a secret. It's really not that hard.

[liftingdown]

lyfting demographic survey results!

hi, so I while ago I posted a link to a survey to fill out out lftblrs demographics, and 88 of you filled it out! so, here are results!

[liftingdown]

random notes on this survey

. the people most likely to get caught lfting had the lowest total lfting amount. as in, like 70% of people in the under ten and under 100 category had be caught in come form, whereas only like 30% of people in the 100-1000 and 10k to 100k categories had. 

.the “do you mainly lift alone or with friends?” question was added later then all the others which is why it has less results

. the number of people with physically illness about matches up with the national average of people who have physical illness, but the mental illness count is well above average. 

.the race demographics of lftblr are notable different the the demographics of people who get caught shoplfting, white and asian people are shown much more in this survey on lftblr, whereas black and Hispanic people are show much more in crime data. 

[liftingdown]

things I wish you could steal

healthcare

rent/ housing

drugs (medical or otherwise)

online grocery picks

college tuition

someone to do my homework

a magical box that tell you weather or not people hate you or you are just overreacting

large mirrors

birth control

uber/taxi rides

gasoline

Jeff Bezos personal money 

vacations

an understanding of statistics before my next test

time off

[louseegoosey]

dumpster diving

do y’all have any thoughts on dumpster diving? i’ve been watching tiktoks of folks finding INCREDIBLE stuff in the dumpsters of BBB, B&BW, & others. i know it’s not the same as you going into a store and getting a specific thing, but a lot of the stuff could be sold on like FB marketplace or a local forum for cash. and a lot of it could be given as gifts. or if you have a friend who also needs things, u could start a tiny exclusive FB group of folks who u trust that could dive together. or if you’re diving alone and find a great load of stuff, u can msg the ppl in the group so they can come look thru it.

i really love this idea bc you get the thrill of the find without the anxiety of the lift (honestly the anxiety is the #1 thing that stops me from lifting). and you can still find great things! some of the things i’ve seen people find (this is all brand new): entire bookshelves and desks, a set of dishes, area rugs worth thousands of dollars each, a vacuum, huge $20 candles where the glass is a little chipped, etc.

the tricky thing with this is that the laws vary a lot— in some places, diving is illegal. i’ve personally been struggling to find the specific laws for diving online. but the general rule seems to be that as long as ur not trespassing, you’re fine. another snag could be ur area. i live in a college town and a lot of the dumpsters are just straight up locked.

would love to hear your thoughts!

[heavenlylifter]

something i’d love to do but don’t think i can achieve😔 plus idk if it’s a feasible thing in the UK, everything seems to be locked up and impenetrable around stores

[lifted-stoner]

diving is definitely worth it, but it depends on the store in your area and what youree looking for. i never went out with a goal, but i found 3 large photo frames at m!ch4els, only 1 was broken and another one just needed a little wood glue! drug stores toss out makeup sometimes but you have to be very careful with unopened packages.

lots of stores also (unfortunately) go to great length to make diving harder. theyll spray paint or smash up mirrors, glass and often destroy items before tossing them because they dont want divers to be attracted there.

general rules:

1. check the laws in your area, never attempt to unlock a dumpster and never trespass for a dumpster.

2. be considerate! dont bring a bunch of people expecting a massive haul, just check out places near you first and only take what you need!

3. dont worry about other people. ive gone diving in the middle of the day and i dont care if a stranger sees me hop into the garbage. depending on the laws in your area, you may have to look out for police, but they shouldnt cause too much trouble so long as youre not trespassing or messing up the place.

4. leave the dumpster looking the same, if not better, than when you got there! dont throw things outside of the dumpster while diving and pick up any extra trash around it if you can! companies get very impatient with dumpster divers that leave a mess, so dont do it, or the dumpster will probably get locked up one day!

5. protect yourself! latex or rubber gloves are a must, lysol wipes or sanitiser, masks of course, waterproof shoes (or ones you dont care about), small garbage bags or an old backpack will be good for taking your haul home before you get the chance to clean the items! if youre concerned about personal safety bring a small knife or call someone on the phone while youre diving. the safest way is to go with a partner!

if your friends arent divers and dont want to hop in with you, thats alright! ask if they can be a lookout just to check out whats in the dumpster! they dont have to do any diving :)

hope this helped!

[stormyniiiights]

I go diving regularly and flip my finds for cash! I’ve also furnished all my apartments with dumpster furniture and like 10-20% of my current wardrobe is stuff I grabbed from the trash. It does genuinely make me feel great to find great items and keep them from rotting in a landfill. Eco friendly and free shit? Score. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions regarding dumpster diving but here’s my general advice: 

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