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The Internet is full of scammers who use "virtual personalities" to deceive people. For example, men are often bred with the help of fake girls' pages, convincing them to pay in advance for sex services or send money "on the road."
It can be difficult to guess that the network interlocutor does not actually exist. After all, he has several completed pages on social networks, a phone number to which a woman's voice answers and a scan of a passport. It is provided at the request of especially vigilant victims.
But getting it all is very easy. After all, there is a whole industry for the creation of "virtual personalities". She serves the needs of crooks, collectors, private detectives and other romantic professions.
This article will tell you about how it is done, what it is used for and how much it costs for network fraud inventory: document scans, fake social media profiles, left numbers and e-wallets. The purpose of this material is to show readers how easy it is to create / acquire tools for fraud.
Passport scans
What are they used for
For registration wherever a scanned passport is required. For example, in payment systems, online casinos, trading platforms, Forex exchanges. To buy domains and imitate a real identity in fraudulent transactions.
Approximate order of prices
$ 1 for a black and white copy of the first page.
$ 3 for a color scan with registration.
$ 7-10 for a photo with a passport in hand + scans of other documents.
It's so cheap because one document can be sold an unlimited number of times. In addition, scans of other people's passports and photos of the owners with them in their hands are very easy to get.
How do they get on sale
A search for the word "passport" on vk.com/docs clearly shows that many people post them on the Internet themselves. Regular browsing of social networks, file sharing services and new images in Google search results gives scammers a good harvest.
There are also various schemes when people are tricked into sending scans of passports. For example, “a playfully-minded girl,” she is a ninth-grader Fedor, writes to a man on a dating site: “Come and visit me right now, but first a scan of your passport came out so that I can trust you” or “You are hired as a content manager, payment of 10 thousand per day, send the documents for registration to the state."
Of course, you can just draw a scan of your passport. A special program RF SCreater was made for this 10 years ago . If you enter the data of a real person into a fake document, then he will be checked against databases.
Legality.
If the fact of registering a domain / account in an online casino with a fake passport is revealed, the service will block you and other users who used the same scan. If your document is used for fraud and a criminal case is opened, then you may need to prove innocence in the court in court.
Social media profiles
What are they used for
Advertising, spamming, cheating subscribers and likes, imitation of a real identity in case of fraud.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1 - automatically registered and completed profiles, which have the same clumsy fakes in their friends.
$ 1-50 - accounts of living people who did not handle their passwords carefully or voluntarily decided to sell their account. The price, first of all, depends on the number and quality of friends (gender, age, city, percentage of bots) and the age of the account. Sometimes the beautiful page ID makes the price higher. For example, 4-digit pages on Vkontakte.
From $ 50 and above - accounts that have more than 10 thousand friends / subscribers, as well as administrator accounts of popular groups and communities.
How do they get on sale
They are automatically registered with the help of bots, stolen from their owners using phishing links and keyloggers, restored after being blocked for a new SIM card (the so-called "retrieve"), manually created and promoted for subsequent sale. You can buy accounts of all popular social networks. This business is done by people all over the world.
The legality of the transaction
The sale of accounts is prohibited by the rules of social networks. In theory, a violation could result in a profile ban.
Sim cards
What are they used for
For automatic registration in social networks and payment systems, for imitation of a real identity in case of fraud. Nice rooms and rooms with favorable rates are used more often for ordinary human needs.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1-0.5 apiece - simple sim cards (often registered to the left company). Sold in large packages.
$ 10-50 - sim cards with especially profitable corporate tariffs or those that were sold in limited quantities.
$ 100-5000 - sim cards with beautiful combinations of numbers. The so-called "silver", "gold" and "platinum" numbers.
How do they get on sale
People on forums claim to be trafficked by enterprising cell phone shop employees. Sim cards are also brought from Ukraine, where they are sold freely.
Legality
The sale of sim cards without a passport is prohibited in Russia. Sellers face a fine of 5000 rubles for individuals, and 200 thousand for legal entities.
Electronic wallets
What are they used for
For cashing out and accepting payments from victims in the implementation of fraudulent schemes.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1-0.5 for a simple automatically registered QIWI wallet.
$ 20-50 for a WebMoney account with a "Initial" passport or a QIWI wallet with the "Maximum" status or a Yandex.Money account with the "Identified" status.
$ 120 for a fully verified US PayPal account.
How do they get on sale
They are automatically registered to the left sim cards, and the user's data is confirmed by fake scans of documents.
Legality
Payment system rules prohibit transferring your wallets to third parties. For breaking a ban without a refund. Depending on the situation, users of such wallets may be punished for fraud or tax evasion.
Virtuals
Most people are pretty suspicious. They look for information about individuals with whom they do business in different sources, but they get trust very easily. Vigilance lulls a completed Instagram, a scan of a passport with an appropriate person, and a phone conversation with a person of the appropriate gender.
If you add all the above four sections of the article together, you get a "virtual personality". It can be used for different types of fraud: luring money "for the road" and "in debt" on dating sites, accepting prepayments for non-existent goods, recruiting into sects, collecting money for charity. There are thousands of schemes and their description is beyond the scope of this article.
Approximate order of prices
$ 15 - $ 100 depending on the naturalness and "fullness" of the virtual.
Just created and hastily completed a few pages on different social networks + a couple of e-wallets will cost $ 20.
Natural looking accounts with a long history and document scans of about $ 50.
$ 100 and more will cost several very high-quality fake pages on social networks + personal website + nickname lit up on different forums + scans of documents + virtual phone number.
How do they get on sale
They are made by specially trained people using a set of automation tools.
Legality
The creation of virtuals is contrary to the rules of social networks and payment systems. Moreover, this activity can be considered as complicity in a crime.
There are three main conclusions from all this: do not post scans of documents in open access and on file hosting services, follow the rules for creating, storing and entering passwords when using social networks and be extremely careful when communicating with people you do not know in real life. Especially if you transfer money to them.
The Internet is full of scammers who use "virtual personalities" to deceive people. For example, men are often bred with the help of fake girls' pages, convincing them to pay in advance for sex services or send money "on the road."
It can be difficult to guess that the network interlocutor does not actually exist. After all, he has several completed pages on social networks, a phone number to which a woman's voice answers and a scan of a passport. It is provided at the request of especially vigilant victims.
But getting it all is very easy. After all, there is a whole industry for the creation of "virtual personalities". She serves the needs of crooks, collectors, private detectives and other romantic professions.
This article will tell you about how it is done, what it is used for and how much it costs for network fraud inventory: document scans, fake social media profiles, left numbers and e-wallets. The purpose of this material is to show readers how easy it is to create / acquire tools for fraud.
Passport scans
What are they used for
For registration wherever a scanned passport is required. For example, in payment systems, online casinos, trading platforms, Forex exchanges. To buy domains and imitate a real identity in fraudulent transactions.
Approximate order of prices
$ 1 for a black and white copy of the first page.
$ 3 for a color scan with registration.
$ 7-10 for a photo with a passport in hand + scans of other documents.
It's so cheap because one document can be sold an unlimited number of times. In addition, scans of other people's passports and photos of the owners with them in their hands are very easy to get.
How do they get on sale
A search for the word "passport" on vk.com/docs clearly shows that many people post them on the Internet themselves. Regular browsing of social networks, file sharing services and new images in Google search results gives scammers a good harvest.
There are also various schemes when people are tricked into sending scans of passports. For example, “a playfully-minded girl,” she is a ninth-grader Fedor, writes to a man on a dating site: “Come and visit me right now, but first a scan of your passport came out so that I can trust you” or “You are hired as a content manager, payment of 10 thousand per day, send the documents for registration to the state."
Of course, you can just draw a scan of your passport. A special program RF SCreater was made for this 10 years ago . If you enter the data of a real person into a fake document, then he will be checked against databases.
Legality.
If the fact of registering a domain / account in an online casino with a fake passport is revealed, the service will block you and other users who used the same scan. If your document is used for fraud and a criminal case is opened, then you may need to prove innocence in the court in court.
Social media profiles
What are they used for
Advertising, spamming, cheating subscribers and likes, imitation of a real identity in case of fraud.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1 - automatically registered and completed profiles, which have the same clumsy fakes in their friends.
$ 1-50 - accounts of living people who did not handle their passwords carefully or voluntarily decided to sell their account. The price, first of all, depends on the number and quality of friends (gender, age, city, percentage of bots) and the age of the account. Sometimes the beautiful page ID makes the price higher. For example, 4-digit pages on Vkontakte.
From $ 50 and above - accounts that have more than 10 thousand friends / subscribers, as well as administrator accounts of popular groups and communities.
How do they get on sale
They are automatically registered with the help of bots, stolen from their owners using phishing links and keyloggers, restored after being blocked for a new SIM card (the so-called "retrieve"), manually created and promoted for subsequent sale. You can buy accounts of all popular social networks. This business is done by people all over the world.
The legality of the transaction
The sale of accounts is prohibited by the rules of social networks. In theory, a violation could result in a profile ban.
Sim cards
What are they used for
For automatic registration in social networks and payment systems, for imitation of a real identity in case of fraud. Nice rooms and rooms with favorable rates are used more often for ordinary human needs.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1-0.5 apiece - simple sim cards (often registered to the left company). Sold in large packages.
$ 10-50 - sim cards with especially profitable corporate tariffs or those that were sold in limited quantities.
$ 100-5000 - sim cards with beautiful combinations of numbers. The so-called "silver", "gold" and "platinum" numbers.
How do they get on sale
People on forums claim to be trafficked by enterprising cell phone shop employees. Sim cards are also brought from Ukraine, where they are sold freely.
Legality
The sale of sim cards without a passport is prohibited in Russia. Sellers face a fine of 5000 rubles for individuals, and 200 thousand for legal entities.
Electronic wallets
What are they used for
For cashing out and accepting payments from victims in the implementation of fraudulent schemes.
Approximate order of prices
$ 0.1-0.5 for a simple automatically registered QIWI wallet.
$ 20-50 for a WebMoney account with a "Initial" passport or a QIWI wallet with the "Maximum" status or a Yandex.Money account with the "Identified" status.
$ 120 for a fully verified US PayPal account.
How do they get on sale
They are automatically registered to the left sim cards, and the user's data is confirmed by fake scans of documents.
Legality
Payment system rules prohibit transferring your wallets to third parties. For breaking a ban without a refund. Depending on the situation, users of such wallets may be punished for fraud or tax evasion.
Virtuals
Most people are pretty suspicious. They look for information about individuals with whom they do business in different sources, but they get trust very easily. Vigilance lulls a completed Instagram, a scan of a passport with an appropriate person, and a phone conversation with a person of the appropriate gender.
If you add all the above four sections of the article together, you get a "virtual personality". It can be used for different types of fraud: luring money "for the road" and "in debt" on dating sites, accepting prepayments for non-existent goods, recruiting into sects, collecting money for charity. There are thousands of schemes and their description is beyond the scope of this article.
Approximate order of prices
$ 15 - $ 100 depending on the naturalness and "fullness" of the virtual.
Just created and hastily completed a few pages on different social networks + a couple of e-wallets will cost $ 20.
Natural looking accounts with a long history and document scans of about $ 50.
$ 100 and more will cost several very high-quality fake pages on social networks + personal website + nickname lit up on different forums + scans of documents + virtual phone number.
How do they get on sale
They are made by specially trained people using a set of automation tools.
Legality
The creation of virtuals is contrary to the rules of social networks and payment systems. Moreover, this activity can be considered as complicity in a crime.
There are three main conclusions from all this: do not post scans of documents in open access and on file hosting services, follow the rules for creating, storing and entering passwords when using social networks and be extremely careful when communicating with people you do not know in real life. Especially if you transfer money to them.
