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Making Life More Difficult for Bank Scammers

Nelson Figueroa on February 22, 2024

If you’ve been around you know I enjoy spamming phishing/scamming sites. I recently received this fake Chase email and decided to go down another p...
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Michael Tharrington

Wow, this is so freaking dope!

You are doing noble work, my friend. 💚

I'm following ya now. I love these kinda stories.

As a non-technical person, I'd like to hear a bit more about what this script is like for the scammer. I'm curious, does this just keep on sending bogus info that looks real their way?

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Nelson Figueroa

I'm curious, does this just keep on sending bogus info that looks real their way?

That's exactly it! After all the fake info I sent their way they would have no way of telling what's real and what isn't. They would have to try all the banking information they saved until something worked. With the amount of data I sent their way this would take forever. It's probably easier for them to just start over.

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SnailPlissken

Won’t the scammers notice an abnormal increase in “scammed people” and just throw out everything?
Or is there random time between each request to make it even harder for them to notice?

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Nelson Figueroa

Yeah the scammers would notice an increase in "scammed people". Adding a random time delay between each request would have made the requests look even more real.

My goal was to make their operation unsuccessful. If they did get any legitimate information it would be buried among all the fake data I sent their way. They would have to try out all the data and see what actually works. This would be extremely time-consuming for them and it's probably easier for them to give up and start over. Given that the scammer site is no longer up, I would like to think that they actually did give up.

I'm sure they'll try again under a different domain though.