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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

January 19, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, adavio, amazon.ca, duncan's first nation, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Coming Storm, timothy barker, triangulation fraud, Walmart, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:34:53 +0000

A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulation fraud,” which occurs when a consumer purchases something online — from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example — but the seller doesn’t actually own the item for sale. Instead, the seller purchases the item from an online retailer using stolen payment card data. In this scam, the unwitting buyer pays the scammer and receives what they ordered, and very often the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

January 17, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, constella intelligence, devon turner, devtakeflight, devtakeflightbeats inc., DomainTools.com, nba 2k17, Ne'er-Do-Well News, obn dev, obn group llc, punchmade dev, punchmade llc, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:00:40 +0000

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

November 6, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, apathyp, apathyr8@jabber.ccc.de, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, gezze@mail.ru, gezze@yandex.ru, Intel 471, ivan sherban, mynetwatchman, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swat usa drop service, triploo@mail.ru, universalo, verified, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:51:31 +0000

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. In today’s Part II, we’ll examine clues about the real-life identity left behind by “Fearless,” the nickname chosen by the proprietor of the SWAT USA Drops service.

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Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed

November 5, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, drops, drops for stuff, fearlless, Ne'er-Do-Well News, reshipping mules, stuffers, swat usa drop service, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:55:34 +0000

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Here’s a closer look at the Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, which currently employs more than 1,200 people across the United States who are knowingly or unwittingly involved in reshipping expensive consumer goods purchased with stolen credit cards.

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.US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

October 31, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, black pumas, blackpumaoct33@ukr.net, GoDaddy, infoblox, josef bakhovsky, kristaps ronka, leila puma, malicious link shortener, Namecheap, namesilo, national telecommunications and information administration, prolific puma, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:26:55 +0000

The top-level domain for the United States — .US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified .US domains as among the most prevalent in phishing attacks over the past year.

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The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Makeover

October 18, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, binance smart chain, bnb smart chain, clearfake, dusty miller, guardio labs, Latest Warnings, nati tal, oleg zaytsev, randy mceoin, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:03:28 +0000

One of the oldest malware tricks in the book — hacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain.

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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

October 17, 2023 admin American Registry for Internet Numbers, Amir Golestan, ARIN, Micfo LLC, Ne'er-Do-Well News, spamhaus, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:23:25 +0000

Amir Golestan, the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.

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Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

October 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, alibaba, correos.es, dnslytics.com, domaintools, Latest Warnings, poste italiane, posti, postnl, postnord, ua-80133954-3, urlscan.io, USPS, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:39:43 +0000

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries worldwide.