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They know all the information about us: first name, last name, place of work, amount of earnings, and sometimes home address and information about relatives. People who call themselves police officers, bank employees, or pension fund employees on the other end of the phone. Often, the amount of data called fraudsters misleads citizens and the last of the potential victims becomes real. Where do scammers get their information and how does this business work in general? A telephone fraudster named Maxim dared to tell about these and other "secrets of the profession".
In less than a year, Maxim managed to make a huge fortune for his 19 years — almost six million rubles. The young man's parents thought that he was engaged in cryptocurrency in a rented apartment, but in fact he was a telephone fraudster, or rather the head of a courier service.
He was a fraudster, and now he is a prisoner who is serving his sentence in the Omsk correctional colony. The guy has been in prison for 2.5 years, works as a handyman and pays damages that he caused to gullible citizens by his illegal actions.
Maxim was determined to start a new life, and therefore decided to talk about what the business called phone fraud looks like from the inside.
The young man's love for the computer has become a direct road to earning money for him. Maxim found his job on the Internet. He got a job as a recruiter for couriers whose task was to collect money from "clients" and transfer it to a special account. Each successful operation brought our narrator 15%.
Each of the participants, respectively, received their share for the completed task. Offhand, the" team " in which Maxim was a member fraudulently took possession of about 40 million savings of Russians in a year. The shock method helped them gain confidence in people.
"People were informed that a relative was either involved in an accident or was responsible for it. And to help him, we urgently need money. They also used a legend about a bank account that they are trying to steal money from, and they need to transfer it to another account," says Maxim.
Couriers were found via the Internet. There was an announcement about hiring employees, which stated that the work does not require effort and is not associated with the distribution of prohibited substances. Then, in a personal conversation, it was reported what they would have to do in the end. Of the five applicants, two agreed to receive 10% of the profit.
"More employees were found in social networks. Teenagers, middle-aged people, and even grandmothers responded to the vacancy. People knew from the very beginning what they were going to do. During my work, I noticed that women never cheated and did not take all the money for themselves," our narrator shares the details.
With those who decided to appropriate the "proceeds", they did not stand on ceremony, one phone call, and the "impudent" was transferred to the hands of law enforcement officers. During "employment", people sent their passport data to "employers".
"We only had a day off on Sunday. On other days, work was carried out from 10 am to 23 pm Moscow time. The courier always had to be online, ready to go anywhere in the city and even to the village, " Maxim shares.
The courier always had two bank cards in his hands, and the limit was not limited. As soon as the loot got to him, he sent all the money received from the victims to a special account. Plastic cards were usually issued to an outsider who received 25 thousand rubles for the "service". People with financial problems did not refuse such simple earnings.
"I tracked the work of couriers from time to time. Appearance, what to say to people when meeting, what scheme to call a taxi. There was never a time when the door was closed in front of the courier. At this point, the person's logic no longer works, he follows the plan," our narrator continues the revelations.
The numbers of potential victims were taken from a special database, which was managed by the head of the criminal group. Maxim never saw him, only talked on the phone when there were personnel problems in the "team". And the suppliers of the database were employees of mobile phone stores, who used shadow portals to leak information for a fee.
"The files that scammers buy from employees of mobile operators have everything: names, who is most often called, whether the person is a family member, where he works and how much he earns. Each such file contains about 60 people who are potentially suitable for the role of a victim."
Fraudsters can get the database not only through mobile phone stores, but also through suppliers of profitable information. There are actually a huge number of them, since each of us regularly shares our personal data with the world. In particular, when filling out questionnaires for obtaining various types of discount cards, when registering on various Internet services. So, over the past two years, information about the leak of the database of large companies has repeatedly appeared in the news feeds of online publications. In particular, the data of clients of Sportmaster and the Yandex Food service were made publicly available.
"Users' contact details were "merged" into open access, including not only phone numbers, but also postal addresses, dates of birth, gender, and delivery addresses," RBC reports.
Every business day, at least 150 calls were made in the Maxim chain, and approximately 5-7 of them were successful for scammers. It also happened that the victims deliberately pretended to be gullible, and people with handcuffs met the courier on the doorstep. One of these caught and handed over to the law enforcement officers our narrator, with whom he was personally acquainted.
Concluding the revelations, the young man urges citizens not to answer calls from unknown numbers. If the phone was picked up, you need to check the information that strangers report.
"When you get a call saying that a relative is in trouble, you probably won't be able to reach them. The scammers also have his number, and they will call him to keep the phone busy. At this point, you don't need to panic, but just wait a little, find another way to contact your loved one."
• Source: https://runews24.ru/articles/25/07/...-otkuda-aferistyi-znayut-dannyie-svoix-zhertv
In less than a year, Maxim managed to make a huge fortune for his 19 years — almost six million rubles. The young man's parents thought that he was engaged in cryptocurrency in a rented apartment, but in fact he was a telephone fraudster, or rather the head of a courier service.
He was a fraudster, and now he is a prisoner who is serving his sentence in the Omsk correctional colony. The guy has been in prison for 2.5 years, works as a handyman and pays damages that he caused to gullible citizens by his illegal actions.
Maxim was determined to start a new life, and therefore decided to talk about what the business called phone fraud looks like from the inside.
The young man's love for the computer has become a direct road to earning money for him. Maxim found his job on the Internet. He got a job as a recruiter for couriers whose task was to collect money from "clients" and transfer it to a special account. Each successful operation brought our narrator 15%.
Each of the participants, respectively, received their share for the completed task. Offhand, the" team " in which Maxim was a member fraudulently took possession of about 40 million savings of Russians in a year. The shock method helped them gain confidence in people.
"People were informed that a relative was either involved in an accident or was responsible for it. And to help him, we urgently need money. They also used a legend about a bank account that they are trying to steal money from, and they need to transfer it to another account," says Maxim.
Couriers were found via the Internet. There was an announcement about hiring employees, which stated that the work does not require effort and is not associated with the distribution of prohibited substances. Then, in a personal conversation, it was reported what they would have to do in the end. Of the five applicants, two agreed to receive 10% of the profit.
"More employees were found in social networks. Teenagers, middle-aged people, and even grandmothers responded to the vacancy. People knew from the very beginning what they were going to do. During my work, I noticed that women never cheated and did not take all the money for themselves," our narrator shares the details.
With those who decided to appropriate the "proceeds", they did not stand on ceremony, one phone call, and the "impudent" was transferred to the hands of law enforcement officers. During "employment", people sent their passport data to "employers".
"We only had a day off on Sunday. On other days, work was carried out from 10 am to 23 pm Moscow time. The courier always had to be online, ready to go anywhere in the city and even to the village, " Maxim shares.
The courier always had two bank cards in his hands, and the limit was not limited. As soon as the loot got to him, he sent all the money received from the victims to a special account. Plastic cards were usually issued to an outsider who received 25 thousand rubles for the "service". People with financial problems did not refuse such simple earnings.
"I tracked the work of couriers from time to time. Appearance, what to say to people when meeting, what scheme to call a taxi. There was never a time when the door was closed in front of the courier. At this point, the person's logic no longer works, he follows the plan," our narrator continues the revelations.
The numbers of potential victims were taken from a special database, which was managed by the head of the criminal group. Maxim never saw him, only talked on the phone when there were personnel problems in the "team". And the suppliers of the database were employees of mobile phone stores, who used shadow portals to leak information for a fee.
"The files that scammers buy from employees of mobile operators have everything: names, who is most often called, whether the person is a family member, where he works and how much he earns. Each such file contains about 60 people who are potentially suitable for the role of a victim."
Fraudsters can get the database not only through mobile phone stores, but also through suppliers of profitable information. There are actually a huge number of them, since each of us regularly shares our personal data with the world. In particular, when filling out questionnaires for obtaining various types of discount cards, when registering on various Internet services. So, over the past two years, information about the leak of the database of large companies has repeatedly appeared in the news feeds of online publications. In particular, the data of clients of Sportmaster and the Yandex Food service were made publicly available.
"Users' contact details were "merged" into open access, including not only phone numbers, but also postal addresses, dates of birth, gender, and delivery addresses," RBC reports.
Every business day, at least 150 calls were made in the Maxim chain, and approximately 5-7 of them were successful for scammers. It also happened that the victims deliberately pretended to be gullible, and people with handcuffs met the courier on the doorstep. One of these caught and handed over to the law enforcement officers our narrator, with whom he was personally acquainted.
Concluding the revelations, the young man urges citizens not to answer calls from unknown numbers. If the phone was picked up, you need to check the information that strangers report.
"When you get a call saying that a relative is in trouble, you probably won't be able to reach them. The scammers also have his number, and they will call him to keep the phone busy. At this point, you don't need to panic, but just wait a little, find another way to contact your loved one."
• Source: https://runews24.ru/articles/25/07/...-otkuda-aferistyi-znayut-dannyie-svoix-zhertv
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