Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters

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https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/23/carding_forum_scams/

By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco
The Register
23 Jul 2020

The denizens of online forums dedicated to trading in stolen credit cards have
been shown to be wretched hives of scum and villainy.

This not-so-surprising news comes this week via academics at Washington State
University (WSU) in the US, who eavesdropped on the activities of two
marketplaces and read over 10,714 posts to those discussion boards.

What they found was miscreants, from newly-registered accounts all the way up to
the admins, are constantly trying to get one over on one another.

We're told only a small fraction of the crooks lurking on the boards were
commercial traders buying and selling stolen cards for cybercrime use. Far more
frequent were accounts that were looking for handouts – things like free
credit-card lists, malware tools, and tutorials.

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