Equipment for 50% in 2025 - myth or reality? How do scammers work?

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For many, the desire to buy something cheaper than its real cost or simply for 50% can become an idea that will not let them go, and in pursuit of such an offer, many will fall for fraudulent schemes from which this topic will actually protect you! So, is equipment for 50% MYTH OR REALITY?

Equipment for half the cost? Myth or reality? Is it possible to make money on this, and where can I find trusted sellers and do they exist? Each of you wanted to get something cheaper than the market value or even for free, and it is precisely those who want it like you or me who come across sweet offers to buy equipment for half the cost on Telegram or other social networks. These can be brand new iPhones, laptops, or lawn mowers.

If you obviously need them, in general, any equipment will be made for you cheaper to your order. Why do people sell equipment cheaper than the market value, although the goods are essentially new? The type of activity that equipment sellers hide behind is called carding. Carding is a type of fraud using stolen credit data.

That is, people buy goods at someone else's expense, in fact, and subsequently earn money on resale, in fact, again stolen equipment. There are a huge number of carders and the target goods that they want to buy are at least somewhat valuable goods and, importantly, those goods that can be easily resold later - this is equipment, airline tickets, hotels, luxury brand clothing, etc.

So, is this a myth or reality? Such services really exist and are in great demand among a certain circle of people who, for example, want to save money on trips or know in advance that they will resell equipment. They absolutely do not care where it came from and how it got into their hands - they care about income and nothing more. Let's briefly go through the history of where it all began. And these services began on old shadow forums, where active carders wanted to sell goods without attracting unnecessary attention. After all, there were sometimes dozens of items of equipment available, which complicated the sales process, since, trivially, at that time, bulletin boards might not have existed yet.

Now it's easy for you or me to sell a product to you or me, just spit, elementary. But earlier there were problems with this. And sometimes it's easier to sell a product by sending it to different countries than to sell it in your own city and disclose personal information. In general, due to the peculiar money laundering, that is, selling to other users, sending it to different parts of the world and all the like, it was simply more difficult to track them down.

All this action continued for a very long time and remains relevant to this day.

If the information above was useful and you did not know it, be sure to leave a comment. There will be even more useful topics below. Let's continue. A second ago I already mentioned where these services can be found and where they live. Important disclaimer, this topic does not call for any action, but is purely informational.

As a rule, these are shadow forms that specialize in all sorts of gray areas and carding is one of them. Finding an active seller there who is active and ready to sell goods in any large volumes is very difficult. I would say, even almost impossible. It is obvious and clear, I repeat, this topic does not call for any action and was created only to inform and you do not end up with a financial loss out of the blue.

Be careful if you decide to get into this business. Returning to the topic, it was not for nothing that I said that it is very difficult to find the right people and why I said earlier that they are hiding. Hmm, because 99 out of 100 such sellers are banal scammers and they have nothing to do with carding and cannot have.

So why do this without a clear financial subtext, because no one wants and will not work for "thank you", and even more so order goods for their own hard-earned money in order to sell it cheaper later. Is there a catch as such here or not? That's right, there is and what a catch. Very large businesses are built on trust and greed, and equipment for 50% is a striking example of such a business. Here in the corner there is a thirst for quick and, importantly, easy money, and sometimes people forget to think, even logically, well, and in every possible way listen to themselves.

I'm not even talking about my intuition, so to speak, but about banal logic, nothing more. How do scammers make money? Posing as
sellers of equipment for 50%, people will try in every possible way to get an advance payment from you for a product that most likely does not even exist. It can be even 5-10% for the expenditure part, so to speak.

But in this situation you need to keep your cool and in no case give in to such provocations, I repeat and emphasize, the main goal of such dealers with equipment for 50% is to earn, nothing more, like everyone else around, and how they earn, they do not care. Most likely, you will send them some part, or not you, but your colleague and another Vasya, who will fall for such a scheme, or they will palm off extra reviews, or something like that. In general, they will dissuade you from the relevance of this scheme and the money will simply be lost out of nowhere. Also, the favorite methods of attracting additional funds from the alleged mammoth are all sorts of inducements to the need to pay various duties - a commission for sending, just a commission for transferring or something like that. The circle of extorting money will never end.

If you paid even a small part, believe me, they will figure out how to squeeze more money out of your wallet. And they have a huge number of psychological tricks in their arsenal, under which you will simply be forced to pay in order to receive at least some goods. Perhaps you ordered an iPhone, and they tell you, pay some part, we will send you, for example, AirPods for testing. You pay and then they start milking you.

In this case, it is even possible that they will actually order the goods, write your name on it to buy extra loyalty. And you sent even more money.

I will tell you the story of my colleague, my very good friend was not distinguished by the correctness of some matters and in places where it was possible to save money, he did it, even if not very honestly and this case was no exception.

He went on vacation and checked into a hotel and it seemed that everything was cloudless until the moment when they started writing off money from his real card. Although the hotel was paid for, as you understand, not by him. The hotel was priced at far from $50 per night, and the entire amount and the cost of his stay at that time were written off, he was there for the fifth day. So, how did this happen? A banal oversight and inattention led to a loss of finances.

At the hotel, he paid with his personal card at the bar. So what, you ask? Let me tell you in more detail how it works and what the main problem was. The room was ordered using someone else's details, and another person may indeed be staying there, but no one has canceled the refund of funds to the bank. Each, I repeat, each bank has a so-called chargeback service, when the payment is simply returned to the original owner. If we go into the technical part, then any payment for a product is a transfer of funds, and it does not happen in the moment, in the second when you pay with your Apple Pay, but can be made tomorrow or in a week, but this amount, in fact, is blocked on your account. If you provide enough evidence that the transaction was not made by you, and this is extremely easy to do, then the amount will be returned to the account of the card owner from which they actually tried to write off the funds, or wrote them off.

It is clear that I do not recommend anyone to do this. All the information provided above is created, I repeat for the third time, for informational purposes only. In general, returning to our sheep and our friend, the hotel realized that they were simply cheated with the payment for an expensive room and took action to compensate for their loss, which, as you understand, was crowned with success.

Paying by card in their bar became the golden ticket for the hotel and a thorn in the side for my colleague, the hotel was not going to return the money for obvious reasons, and in principle there is no reason for the person to live, the person paid, that's all, no problems. Fortunately, this situation did not end in something very, very sad, like an arrest or something like that. We parted with the hotel on a positive note and with banal excuses that a friend said he would pay for the hotel, but they had a fight, the payment did not go through, and so on and so forth.

So take the payment, we have no problems. But for a second, all this happened in a country where you can get a life sentence for this, and this is not a joke. And from this point of view, the situation does not look so positive in reality. The moral of this story is very simple, do not fool the system, because the system will fool you very easily, I repeat, fortunately, everything ended on a positive note.

To summarize, equipment for 50% really exists and is sold, but definitely not on Telegram, where some unknown person wrote you a private message and offers to deliver whatever you want, whatever you want, any equipment and any name. Alas, it does not work like that, when they can send you anything you want upon request, with a 100% probability, not even 99.9%, but with a 100% probability, you are communicating with a scammer.

That's all.
 
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