A Different Type of Scam
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A Different Type of Scam
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#2That advance fee scam is old, just add bitcoin to it and you find new suckas.
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#3That advance fee scam is old, just add bitcoin to it and you find new suckas.
IMHO the real clever part is that they're scamming people trying to scam others by using a poorly designed screen shot app. So it's a kinda Dexter level serial killer killer level scam.
More power to 'em.
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#4Cute.
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#5looked into this some time ago after watching a video[1] about Lightshot don't recall the addresses involved but the set of domains was different, the interface looked similar to the screenshots. This was a 6+ months ago at least, the video is dated Mar 14, 2020. This is probably been going on for quite some time
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#6That advance fee scam is old, just add bitcoin to it and you find new suckas.
IMHO the real clever part is that they're scamming people trying to scam others by using a poorly designed screen shot app. So it's a kinda Dexter level serial killer killer level scam. More power to 'em.
Scamming people by scamming them to think they are scamming somebody else is the oldest trick in the book. It’s the plot of ‘The Sting’ and it keeps people from going to the police.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO the real clever part is that they're scamming people trying to scam others by using a poorly designed screen shot app. So it's a kinda Dexter level serial killer killer level scam. More power to 'em.
Scamming people by scamming them to think they are scamming somebody else is the oldest trick in the book. It’s the plot of ‘The Sting’ and it keeps people from going to the police.
Absolutely.
The trick I love here is that there's almost zero interaction to the grift. The websites just sit there. There's no soft skills, no convincing of the mark. The soft skills are all on the website.
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#8Cute.
somehow this is the exact word that came to my mind when I read this.
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#9Reminds me of another similar scam I heard about where someone would post their mnemonic phrase in a public chat. Some malicious actor will then quickly try to import it into a wallet to spend it to find a ERC20 Shittoken but no ETH to pay the gas fee to transfer it, and would try to transfer some ETH quickly to the wallet, where the original attacker will come in and swipe the ETH away.
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#10Apparently kids on TikTok are "hacking" by going to prnt.sc and entering random URLs, as covered here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05K5glVCwis&t=433s . So now scammers are exploiting the popularity of that "hack" meme (using the original definition as an idea that spreads).
I wonder if the scammers are going the influencer route next, throw lots of shit out onto the net and hope they go viral, and when they do, somehow use that to scam people...