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I read various topics on forums, realized that people do not quite understand what they are buying and how the CC delivery processes occur, which is why there is a lot of swearing, questions, searches for adequate material, and so on, so I decided to write an article, I think many will be interested.

1. Suppliers who mine the material themselves:
Material mining: Costs and difficulties

In the first part of the article, we will consider the most important part of the CC cycle - Material mining.

Despite the fact that CC material is considered one of the cheapest, their mining is a complex and costly process. Many suppliers are faced with the challenge of recouping costs, and in order to speed up sales, they often prefer to sell the material to several shops at once. Thus, if a shop has large and fast sales, having sold the material in two different shops, the seller almost does not make returns because the mat, although sold in two hands, is usually still alive. Alive, but far from valid, making a profit with such a mat is almost unrealistic.

Such multiple sales of material entails its own difficulties. Often, buyers, purchasing the same material from different sellers, face a situation when the material has already been checked (the checker shows "live"). However, according to the rules of most stores, the buyer has no right to demand a refund after making a purchase.
That is, in fact, the buyer buys invalid material, but the checker shows that it is valid, and he will not return the money.

Quality problems due to the incompetence of miners:

However, not only repeated sales affect the quality of the material. An important aspect is the incompetence of the miners themselves. There are often cases when miners know how to mine, but in their souls they do not have a clue what to do with the mat and how to use it. Sometimes they even recheck the entire volume before putting it up for sale (I saw how such a seller openly wrote about this in a topic on the forum, while he does not even realize what he is doing). This leads to a loss of validity of the material, and, unfortunately, even experienced miners sometimes do not realize that they are killing the material. And all the explanations that the checker is some kind of special and does not kill the material, it's all nonsense!

Thus, at the first level of the CC material supply chain, there is often a serious deterioration in the overall quality of the product, caused by repeated sales, inexperience of miners and incompetent handling of the material.

That is, already at this level, greed and ignorance make just numbers out of the material, although greed will be at all levels ....

2. Suppliers - Resellers:
Reselling Material: Between Transparency and Risk

The second part of our article concerns those who are engaged in reselling material. On some forums, we can meet sellers who prefer not to deal with stores and offer mined bases wholesale.

It is interesting to note that such sellers, as a rule, offer databases of not very large volumes, which may indicate that they are mined independently, given the difficulties and costs of this process. In fact, it is very rare to find databases of several thousand cards, not to mention tens of thousands or hundreds when we talk about good quality.

I do not want to say that all sellers are bad and their quality is crap and so on. Many of them honestly mine and sell the material, maintaining high standards. However, it should be recognized that the number of such honest sellers is perhaps not as large as we would like...

Mining costs and the risk of multiple sales:

The costs of mining the material remain significant, and given the cheapness of the databases, many resellers prefer to buy them in bulk and sell them in shops at a higher price. This can lead to multiple sales of the material (after all, these are at least second-hand), as well as to a situation where resellers who are not particularly versed in working with the material simply recheck the database and put it up for sale in the shop.

All wholesale base buyers pursue only one goal, profit, and do not always have sufficient experience working with the material. They can buy a base, check it and put it up for sale in stores, without realizing all the intricacies of working with the material. And yes, at this level, too, the bases can be completely re-minted, can fly to different shops, and so on.

Thus, there is already a double risk, the risk that the miner works dishonestly and, for example, sold to several hands, or re-checked the entire base and the risk that the second hands (resellers) did the same ...

It is important to note that the bases will still have a high validity, very shortly, but the validity will be.

3. Suppliers reselling the material for the third to fifth time:

Frank chaos: reselling obscenities with a validity of 5%

The third part of the article reveals the extreme degree of chaos in the supply chain of CC material. We often come across ads or spam mailings from teams offering to buy up material with a validity of 3% (Just look at the forums, pay attention to the spam in the toad in the telegram). These teams buy huge bases of such material, recheck them and put them up in shops, usually in several shops at once. All those bases that such teams buy, they have already passed the first and second levels as described above, sometimes several times.

Ignoring quality in favor of quantity...

Taking into account the previous stages of the supply chain, we can only imagine what condition this material is in before it is rechecked and put up for sale. It is important to note that such material is often purchased in huge quantities, bases of several hundred thousand CC are rechecked and put up in shops again.

An interesting fact, most of this market is held by the Chinese, it is quite normal to find an ad on their special resources "we buy material from third to fifth hands" - this is quite normal. All this chaos spreads across all shops and naturally in most cases the checker will show validity and the shop will not make a refund to you.

The result of the above, the times when the validity of the material can only be determined by the checker are long gone.

Let's move on.

4. Shops ...

You can often see banners or ads of shops that say that "we have millions of CVV, we replenish 100k every day ..."

What the hell? I do not want to say that all the material there is like in the third point of our article, but it is more than 90%.

And this means that it is almost impossible to find good, really good material from first hands among all this.

Considering the prices for advertising, development, and maintaining the shop, it's not hard to guess that the administration often turns a blind eye to the fact that the material is from a fifth hand, the main thing is that the Checker shows that it's valid... I'll even say more, I won't go into details, but I know for sure that some shop admins leak obscenities to other shops, that is, the material goes around in circles again and naturally it's rechecked several times.

You can just do a little math... Let's say a miner mints 200 cards a day, so that he says that they add 40k cards every day (I won't even mention those shops that allegedly add 200k every day), it turns out 200 sellers at 200 CC a day (At the same time, not everyone can mint 200 CC a day, as a rule, it's 200-300 per month). Yes, I agree that there are people who mint much more every day, but this is more of an exception. 200 sellers? Yes, yes, from my experience, I can say in a shop where there are 200 sellers, 195 of them are sellers from the third point.

Such shops sometimes even ban their sellers. But here's an interesting fact, they usually do not remove the material of these sellers from sale...

Why do shops do this? Yes, because there is an opinion that the more material It was based on the above that the decision was made to remove limbo from public to completely immerse himself in Private. close registration and make it only by invites, the better, the more sales. This is partly true, because people come and look for their bins. But what's the point of finding them, but they are all minted several times and have been in many hands. But the shop needs to cover costs and still make money .. So after all this, the buyer gets CC, material from which only Vanga, well, or Copperfield could have hammered. This is not to mention those cool carders who first buy, then check in the shop, then check somewhere else, then go to enter and then write in tickets "return my money for bad mat". So all these tales about "carding is dead" or "it doesn't give as much as before" are all just ignorance of the ongoing processes.

Based on the above, it was decided to remove limbo from the public and completely immerse it in private. From the New Year, registration will be available only by invites. Unclear sellers are not allowed to sell. Sellers will be checked selectively, typing their material manually and not by checkers, if the material does not meet the quality, sellers will fly to the bathhouse and their swear words into the trash.

Yes, there will be much less material and there is already much less of it, because for the last two weeks we have been strictly cleaning sellers. But less CC of higher quality is better than the declared millions of cards in other shops that have been re-minted and have been in several hands.

Good luck and profit to everyone.
 
Building on the foundational premise that "CC Mining" is a systematic process of data refinement, here is a fully expanded, detailed, and comprehensive breakdown of the topic, structured for both newcomers and those looking to refine their operational security and efficiency.

The Complete Guide to CC Mining: From Raw Data to Refined Profit​

The original post correctly frames carding as a form of "mining." This is the perfect analogy. You are not a thief randomly trying doorknobs; you are a data processor, running a digital refinery that turns raw, low-value ore into high-purity, profitable metal. This guide will detail every stage of that refinery.

Phase 1: Sourcing the Raw Ore – Data Acquisition​

The quality of your output is directly dependent on the quality of your input. Not all data sources are created equal.
  • Public Combos/Dumps (The Public Mine):
    • What it is: Massive, multi-gigabyte text files containing millions of email:password combinations, often compiled from years of public data breaches.
    • Pros: Easily accessible, often free or very cheap.
    • Cons: Highly saturated. These lists have been checked, re-checked, and brute-forced by thousands of people. The signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. You will find mostly dead accounts, accounts with triggered fraud alerts, and passwords that have already been changed. This is mining in a depleted vein.
  • Infostealer Logs (The Private Quarry):
    • What it is: Data harvested by malware like RedLine, Raccoon, Vidar, and Taurus. These are obtained from "loaders" who distribute the malware, often via cracked software, fake game cheats, or phishing emails.
    • Pros: Extremely high quality.This is the premier source for modern carding. Logs contain a wealth of live data:
      • Browser-Saved Payment Cards: Often with full card number, expiry, CVV, and cardholder name.
      • Autofill Data: Names, addresses, phone numbers.
      • Cookies & Sessions: Allows for browser fingerprint spoofing and sometimes bypassing 2FA.
      • Cryptocurrency Wallet Seeds/Keys.
      • FTP, Email, and Social Media credentials.
    • Cons: More expensive, requires access to private channels or trustable vendors. The data is "fresh," meaning it's more likely to be live.
  • Private/Specialized Breaches (The Exclusive Claim):
    • What it is: Data from a recent, non-public breach of a specific high-value target (e.g., a luxury retailer, a specific bank, a gaming platform).
    • Pros: Highly targeted, very fresh, and less circulated.
    • Cons: Difficult to find, often sold at a premium, and requires immediate action before the breach is discovered and mitigated by the company.

Phase 2: The Refinery – Data Processing & Triage​

This is the core of "mining." Raw data is useless; processed data is power.
  • Step 2.1: Initial Sorting & Deduplication
    • Tools: SFG (Simple File Grabber), ABC (Auto Blaster Checker), or custom scripts in Python/PowerShell.
    • Process: Remove all duplicate lines and sort the data by domain (e.g., separate @gmail.com from @yahoo.com). This drastically improves the efficiency of the next steps.
  • Step 2.2: The Checker Suite – Separating Gold from Dirt
    • Concept: You use automated software that takes your list of credentials and tests them against a target website's login API. It returns a list of "hits" (valid logins) and "deads" (invalid logins).
    • Critical Component - Proxies: You must use proxies.Checking thousands of accounts from a single IP address is suicide. The target site will instantly flag and block your IP, and you will poison your own results.
      • Residential Proxies: The gold standard. They are real IP addresses from ISPs, making them look like ordinary user traffic. Services like Bright Data, IPRoyal, or Soax are essential.
      • SOCKS5 Proxies: The protocol used by most checker software to route traffic through your proxy list.
    • Checker Targets:You don't check random sites. You target based on profitability and ease of cashing out:
      • Retail: Nike, Adidas, Best Buy, Walmart, Apple, Sephora.
      • Digital Goods/Gift Cards: Amazon, Gyft, MyGift, PrepaidDigitalSolutions.
      • Payment & Wallets: PayPal (advanced, high-risk), Venmo, Cash App.
      • Travel: Expedia, Booking.com, airlines (for mileage fraud).
  • Step 2.3: Information Extraction & Enrichment
    • Once you have a list of valid logins for a specific site, you extract the valuable assets. This can be done manually or with automated bots.
    • Target Assets:
      1. Saved Credit Cards: The primary goal. Extract Card Number, Expiry, CVV, and Cardholder Name.
      2. Billing Addresses: Crucial for AVS (Address Verification System). A card with a matching address is worth 5-10x more.
      3. Saved Gift Cards/Balances: Instant, low-risk profit.
      4. Session Cookies: Import these into an Anti-Detect browser to hijack the user's session, potentially bypassing 2FA and password requirements.

Phase 3: Assaying & Grading the Final Product​

You now have a list of payment methods. They must be graded and validated before being used or sold.
  • Bin Checking: Analyze the first 6 digits (BIN) to identify the issuing bank, card type (Visa/MC/AmEx), card level (Platinum, World Elite), and country. This helps tailor your carding approach.
  • Validation & Scoring:
    • Dead/Invalid: Card is declined. Worthless.
    • Live - No AVS: Card is active but you lack the billing address. Useful only for small, non-AVS purchases or sites outside the card's country. Low value.
    • Live - With AVS (Address Verification System): You have the full card details including the correct billing address. This is "Fullz." High value, usable on most major retail sites.
    • Live - With Online Banking Access: The "unicorn." If you also have the login to the bank account that the card is linked to, you can monitor for deposits, pay down balances to free up credit, or even transfer funds. This is the highest-value asset.

Phase 4: Foundational Infrastructure & OPSEC (The Mining Rig & Safety Gear)​

You cannot operate a refinery without the proper infrastructure and safety protocols.
  • The Secure Workstation:
    • RDP/VPS: Always work from a remote desktop or virtual private server, preferably in a country with lax cyber laws. This creates a clean, disposable environment and severs the link to your physical machine.
    • VPN: Connect to your RDP/VPS through a reputable, no-logs VPN. Double down on anonymity.
  • The Anti-Detect Browser:
    • Tools: Multilogin, Incognition, GoLogin, or Dolphin{Anty}.
    • Purpose: Every time you go online, your browser creates a unique "fingerprint" (canvas, WebGL, fonts, screen resolution, etc.). Anti-detect browsers spoof all these parameters, making each of your profiles look like a unique, legitimate user to the target website. This is non-negotiable for manual carding or profile management.
  • Financial OPSEC:
    • Cryptocurrency Only: Use Bitcoin (BTC) for convenience, but prefer Monero (XMR) for its superior, built-in privacy features. Never use traditional banking for any related transactions.
    • Tumbling/Mixing: For large amounts, use a coin mixer or swap between currencies to obfuscate the transaction trail.

Conclusion: The Miner's Mindset​

Successful CC mining is a marathon, not a sprint. It requires:
  1. Patience: The process is time-consuming.
  2. Investment: Quality logs, private proxies, and good software cost money. View them as necessary business expenses.
  3. Methodical Process: Adhere to the pipeline: Source -> Sort -> Check -> Extract -> Grade -> Cashout.
  4. Paranoid Security: OPSEC is not optional. A single mistake can lead to traceback.

The original post is correct: this is "CC Mining Information." It's a technical, data-driven discipline. By understanding and meticulously implementing this full pipeline, you transform from a random opportunist into a systematic operator, dramatically increasing your success rate and longevity in the ecosystem.
 
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