What is “stuff carding” in 2024

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There are stores online that sell household appliances at a discount: various cameras, laptops, phones of famous brands, or jewelry at a discount of 30-60% lower than usual, and the point is not that these turn out to be goods of Chinese origin, the products really high quality.

The point is different: they offer you stolen things, of course, without warranty service. Such goods are purchased through plastic cards “carders”. This is the sale of goods purchased with hacked credit cards, the so-called “item carding”.

Clothes carding appeared when cashing out dirty money began to pose a certain difficulty, since this often requires the physical person of the card holder. Therefore, “craftsmen” purchase goods remotely in online stores in Europe, the USA, or the UK. At the same time, for example, European stores send goods within Europe without any problems, including to Latvia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. In some cases, it got to the point that a branded product could be purchased at half the manufacturer's selling price.

The heyday of this activity dates back to the 90s, when many online stores went bankrupt due to the actions of carders, and the remaining ones declared the CIS countries outlawed and stopped sending goods. But the story did not end there, and a way out was found. It was only necessary to find a figurehead in the desired country, to whom the purchase was made with further forwarding to the CIS countries.

SIMPLIFIED CLOTHING CARDING SCHEME​

Clothes carders come up with the name of the company, indicate the type of its activity (shipping goods around the world), indicate the name of the head of the company and the general manager (aka), who will subsequently communicate with the “drops”, and place this entire legend on the website on the Internet.
  1. The fraudster, having previously ensured his safety online, places an order in the selected online store. To be on the safe side, the store may ask you to send a scan of your credit card or call the store. A scan of the map is drawn by a specialist in Photoshop. The origin of the call is simulated through anti-caller ID.
  2. The store sends the purchase to an agent of this chain in the country where the store itself is located. Such an agent is called a “dropper” and is sometimes unaware of it.
  3. Drop either forwards the goods to the specified address or sells them locally with subsequent division of profits.
For security purposes, a buyer interested in purchasing the same camera is contacted by email and payment for the product is accepted via electronic wallets, such as QIWI, Bitcoin, etc.

The buyer sends money and his data for receipt. After a while, a courier from one of the postal services contacts him.

WHO IS DROP​

Finding “drops” is not an easy task. These are citizens of the country in which the goods are purchased. A vacancy is posted on the World Wide Web for the position of a correspondence processing assistant or some kind of manager.

An agreement (of course a fake one) is concluded with the found applicant for employment and assistance in sending the supplied goods.

The lifespan of such a “manager” is 3-4 months or less, then representatives of the special services contact him.

The drops are also cunning and can simply throw a carder. Some housewives “forget” to send the goods or send them to the wrong address, as a result of which the victim has time to protest the funds illegally debited from his card and the goods are returned to the store, and the money is returned to its rightful owner.

CAREFUL CARDER​

Online stores do not sleep and a number of measures are countered by the clever manipulations of attackers. Online stores have special scripts installed, the functionality of which is aimed at obtaining additional information regarding the order being placed.

If a carder places an order in an English store, his computer in its “anatomy” should be similar to the computer of a resident of the UK. Those. the operating system must be in English, the time zone must not be Moscow GMT+3:00, and must correspond to the time zone of the “drop” on the other side.

The proxy server and IP must also match the state and city where your drop resides. Even the Russian keyboard layout can be intimidating.

A careful carder will take into account the schedule of the country's holidays, during which the flow of orders increases and the chances of remaining “in the crowd” unnoticed will increase.

A smart carder does not place orders from reputable online stores with good security. There's probably no need to explain why. A small store is selected, which is an Internet showcase of a regular store, where there is no serious security service or qualified personnel.

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