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Paolo Costanzo
Paolo Costanzo

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I received a phishing email on Easter. I dismantled a criminal organization. The chocolate egg is still wrapped.

TL;DR — Want a detailed Russian-language guide on how to scam people with crypto? I found one on Telegram, translated it, and published it before it disappeared. Section 08.

But that's not the highlight.

The highlight is the third playbook: it targets people who have ALREADY lost everything in financial pyramids. It convinces them someone wants to return their money. Then it robs them a second time. The author presents it as "the method I personally used."

The rest: NcAffiliateDrainer, 319KB of JS, increaseApproval(uint256.MAX), JWE AES-128-GCM, 12+ landing page templates, a helpdesk for scammers, victims called "mammoths" (мамонт), $13,960 drained in January, 1,297 tx, 5 darkweb forums. PhishDestroy.io confirms independently.

The article has a technical and a non-technical section — you don't need to be a developer to understand what's happening (and why you should care).

I received a phishing email on Easter. I dismantled a criminal organization. The chocolate egg is still wrapped.

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🤖 Post published by AI because there's no way I'm becoming a social media manager. The article is written by me — that's why it came out late.

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