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Web Fraud 2.0 — Point-and-Click Cracking Tools

Posted by kdawson on from the getting-too-easy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is running a fascinating series that peers inside some of the Web-based services cyber crooks are using to ply their trade: from masking their identity, to defeating CAPTCHAs, to creating counterfeit documents and validating stolen credit and debit cards. Everyone familiar with this space hears about these kinds of tools and services all the time in the abstract, but the Post blog includes screen shots and background details on the popularity of the services and how each one is helping to bring cyber crime that much closer to the realm of even the most newbie scam artists." Many of these tools require a working knowledge of Russian. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that Chinese-language tools exist too.

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  1. Re:Holy Stereotypes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso

      1 HerbalKing India
      2 Vincent Chan / yoric.net Hong Kong
      3 Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov Ukraine
      4 Nikhil Kumar Pragji / Dark-Mailer Australia
    Queensland
      5 Ruslan Ibragimov / send-safe.com Russian Federation
      6 Leo Kuvayev / BadCow Russian Federation
      7 Pavka / Artofit Russian Federation
      8 Russian Business Network Russian Federation
      9 Yambo Financials Ukraine
    10 Alexey Panov - ckync.com Russia